Advances in the Protection of Museum Collections from Earthquake Damage

By Jerry Podany

Subjects: Art, Earthquake resistant design, Congresses, Conservation and restoration, Buildings, earthquake effects, Earthquake effects, Earthquake engineering, Museum buildings, Art, conservation and restoration

Description: "The book's essays examine the techniques applied to large collections and to small house museums, to exhibition cases containing objects as well as to monumental works of art and historical structures. Approaches range from securing and restraining objects to decoupling them from the ground through a variety of base-isolation mechanisms. These pioneering efforts have been developed in the face of significant challenges since, as any engineer, conservator, or mount maker who has undertaken this work can attest, a small sculpture can often be a far greater challenge to protect than a multistory building"--Publisher's description.