Pub Date : 2023-05-06DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167575
Kerith Koss Schrager, Anne Kingery-Schwartz, Julie Sobelman
When considering the use of new and innovative materials in the treatment and handling of museum objects, there are many issues concerning health and safety, particularly when the toxicity of these new materials is unknown. However, issues related to exposure of toxic materials are not just related to new innovations; health and safety information is incomplete for most of the materials already used in collection care. Many topics covered in this article apply to any chemical/material to which museum personnel may be exposed. The discussion is divided into three parts: (1) an explanation of why museum workers, particularly conservators, are a unique exposure population when it comes to health and safety concerns; (2) a specific chemical case study (cyclododecane) describing how to approach materials with limited safety information; and (3) practical protocols to protect workers and the public. To gain a better understanding of how to approach these challenges, a summary of related literature, interviews, and survey responses on this topic are provided.
{"title":"Not a Known Carcinogen: Health and Safety Considerations of New and Innovative Treatments","authors":"Kerith Koss Schrager, Anne Kingery-Schwartz, Julie Sobelman","doi":"10.1177/15501906231167575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231167575","url":null,"abstract":"When considering the use of new and innovative materials in the treatment and handling of museum objects, there are many issues concerning health and safety, particularly when the toxicity of these new materials is unknown. However, issues related to exposure of toxic materials are not just related to new innovations; health and safety information is incomplete for most of the materials already used in collection care. Many topics covered in this article apply to any chemical/material to which museum personnel may be exposed. The discussion is divided into three parts: (1) an explanation of why museum workers, particularly conservators, are a unique exposure population when it comes to health and safety concerns; (2) a specific chemical case study (cyclododecane) describing how to approach materials with limited safety information; and (3) practical protocols to protect workers and the public. To gain a better understanding of how to approach these challenges, a summary of related literature, interviews, and survey responses on this topic are provided.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"19 1","pages":"137 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82393736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167574
L. E. Johannessen, A. Johnsen, Thore Koppetsch, J. Lifjeld, Michael Matschiner, Geir Søli, K. Voje
In the NHMO zoological collections, specimens from the Arctic include about 9,000 mammals and 7,100 birds, whereas the Insect Collection holds about 105,000 specimens plus more than hundred jars with unsorted material. The Fish Collection contains approximately 1,400 specimens, while the Herptile Collection (amphibians & reptiles) holds only thirty-one specimens of three taxa. Many of these specimens originate from expeditions to E Greenland, N Canada, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Finnmark, and NE Siberia in the period 1898 to 1966. Furthermore, the DNA Bank has about 5,600 tissue and extracted DNA samples, mostly sampled from wild animals during the last decades but also from specimens in the voucher collections. Most of the Arctic specimens have been digitized and are available in online data portals like GBIF, except for the Insect Collection, where only the type material and about 30 percent of the total specimens are digitized.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/15501906231171737
C. S. Bjorå, M. Bendiksby, Bjørn Petter Løfall, Lars Erik Johannesen, E. Timdal
The Arctic has been, and is, an area of focus for the botanical and fungal (lichenized fungi included) collections at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. These collections house more than 233,000 unique Arctic specimens, the oldest dating back more than two centuries. The vascular plants account for 63 percent, lichens 30 percent, and fungi 7 percent. The Arctic collections have a circumpolar representation with emphasis on mainland Norway (48 percent) and Svalbard (13 percent), followed by Arctic America (10 percent), Greenland (9 percent), and Arctic Russia (8 percent). The Oslo herbarium and fungarium house collections from important polar expeditions like Fram-2, Gjøa, and Maud, but also of many expeditions where collecting biological specimens was the main purpose. The number of new collections was highest in the decades 1930 to 1939 and 2000 to 2009 with each around 35,000 new specimens. In the 1990s, a DNA Bank was established for DNA extracts and tissue samples, and it houses today 22,879 Arctic accessions of fungi, lichens, and plants. In times of climatic change and a tense geopolitical situation, the herbarium and fungarium at NHM-Oslo represent an invaluable source for biological information about the Arctic. We welcome the use of our collections for research-, nature management-, and teaching purposes.
北极一直是奥斯陆自然历史博物馆(Natural History Museum of Oslo)植物和真菌(包括地衣真菌)收藏的重点领域。这些藏品收藏了超过23.3万件独特的北极标本，其中最古老的可以追溯到两个多世纪以前。维管植物占63%，地衣占30%，真菌占7%。北极地区的藏品以极地为代表，重点是挪威大陆(48%)和斯瓦尔巴群岛(13%)，其次是北极美洲(10%)，格陵兰岛(9%)和北极俄罗斯(8%)。奥斯陆植物标本馆和真菌馆收藏了重要的极地探险，如Fram-2, Gjøa和Maud，以及许多以收集生物标本为主要目的的探险。新收藏的数量在1930年至1939年和2000年至2009年的几十年里是最多的，每次大约有35,000个新标本。在20世纪90年代，建立了一个DNA银行，用于提取DNA和组织样本，今天它容纳了22,879种北极真菌，地衣和植物。在气候变化和紧张的地缘政治形势下，奥斯陆国家自然科学博物馆的植物标本馆和真菌馆是有关北极生物信息的宝贵来源。我们欢迎将我们的藏品用于研究、自然管理和教学目的。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159037
M. Harzhauser, A. Weinmann, M. Krenn, O. Mandic
We present a journey through the history of the Austrian Arctic collections stored in Geological-Paleontological Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW). The NHMW-material was mainly acquired during four expeditions. The first was an Isbjørn expedition designed as a test cruise by Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht in 1871. One year later, there was a second Isbjørn expedition under the command of Count Johann Wilczek. In 1873, Richard von Drasche, an industrial magnate with geological expertise, organized a private trip to eastern Spitzbergen (Svalbard). The fourth one was from 1872 to 1874, when Payer and Weyprecht led the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition on the ship Admiral Tegetthoff. The latter, which almost ended in a catastrophe, discovered Franz-Josef-Land. After these expeditions, Austria took part in the First International Polar Year (1882–1883), with its own research station at Jan Mayen. There are numerous types provided by these expeditions that make this collection and its archival material an important source for the geological history of the Arctic region.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159039
H. A. Nakrem, Franz-Josef Lindemann, J. Hurum, Ø. Hammer
The fossils from the Arctic in the palaeontological collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo (NHMO), Norway, cover most taxonomic groups and stratigraphic ages. They have proved useful in many research projects by adding important data, or by being the sole basis for these projects. The collections are well curated and most parts of them are registered in computer databases. Museum collections like those at the NHMO help to document the evolution of organismal groups in the (present-day) Arctic, and the palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological conditions they lived under. They are a resource for science by keeping records of fossils and rocks from remote locations, some of them with restricted access today (e.g., Novaya Zemlya, Russia). Not least they also document the history of scientific exploration and collecting culture over time. The history of exploration and appropriation of land in the Arctic, where many areas were considered to be “no man’s land” until the early twentieth century, is reflected in the collections, as is the building of a national Norwegian identity through polar expeditions in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
{"title":"Fossils From the Arctic in the Collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway","authors":"H. A. Nakrem, Franz-Josef Lindemann, J. Hurum, Ø. Hammer","doi":"10.1177/15501906231159039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231159039","url":null,"abstract":"The fossils from the Arctic in the palaeontological collections of the Natural History Museum in Oslo (NHMO), Norway, cover most taxonomic groups and stratigraphic ages. They have proved useful in many research projects by adding important data, or by being the sole basis for these projects. The collections are well curated and most parts of them are registered in computer databases. Museum collections like those at the NHMO help to document the evolution of organismal groups in the (present-day) Arctic, and the palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological conditions they lived under. They are a resource for science by keeping records of fossils and rocks from remote locations, some of them with restricted access today (e.g., Novaya Zemlya, Russia). Not least they also document the history of scientific exploration and collecting culture over time. The history of exploration and appropriation of land in the Arctic, where many areas were considered to be “no man’s land” until the early twentieth century, is reflected in the collections, as is the building of a national Norwegian identity through polar expeditions in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"2016 1","pages":"420 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87769161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The collection of the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SGM RAS) is over 260 years old, and during this period it has constantly expanded. The first Arctic collections, mainly invertebrates, entered the museum in the middle of the twentieth century. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the type collections from the Russian Arctic began to be actively developed in the museum holdings. Arctic collections of the SGM RAS are represented mainly by Jurassic and Cretaceous cephalopods and bivalves, but also by some crinoids and several parts of ichthyosaur skeleton from the New Siberian Islands, Svalbard, Taimyr, northern Siberia, and Franz Josef Land.
{"title":"The Arctic Paleontological Collections in the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum (Moscow, Russia)","authors":"Iraida Alexandrovna Starodubtseva, Irina Leonidovna Soroka","doi":"10.1177/15501906231159025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231159025","url":null,"abstract":"The collection of the V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SGM RAS) is over 260 years old, and during this period it has constantly expanded. The first Arctic collections, mainly invertebrates, entered the museum in the middle of the twentieth century. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the type collections from the Russian Arctic began to be actively developed in the museum holdings. Arctic collections of the SGM RAS are represented mainly by Jurassic and Cretaceous cephalopods and bivalves, but also by some crinoids and several parts of ichthyosaur skeleton from the New Siberian Islands, Svalbard, Taimyr, northern Siberia, and Franz Josef Land.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"120 1","pages":"442 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87996984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159028
G. Boeskorov, M. Shchelchkova
Many Ice Age fossil mammals remains are found in Yakutia, which occupies most of Eastern Siberia. In the city of Yakutsk, various museum and scientific institutions hold collections and exhibits of Quaternary mammals collected at different times in different locations in the Arctic zone of Yakutia. These collections mostly represents the Late Pleistocene Mammoth Fauna, and are housed in the Emelyan Yarosslavsky’s Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North, the Mammoth Museum, the Geological Museum of Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Department of the Mammoth Fauna study, Academy of Sciences of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. These collections include woolly mammoth skeletons, other fragments of mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and horse carcasses, whole carcasses of steppe bison, cave lion cubs, and other fossil mammals, many bones and teeth of various mammals of the Mammoth Fauna. The study of these fossil mammal remains allow identification of features of their anatomy and morphology, as well as reconstruction of the ecological conditions at the time they were alive.
{"title":"Arctic Quaternary Mammal Collections in the Museums of Yakutsk (Yakutia, East Siberia, Russia)","authors":"G. Boeskorov, M. Shchelchkova","doi":"10.1177/15501906231159028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231159028","url":null,"abstract":"Many Ice Age fossil mammals remains are found in Yakutia, which occupies most of Eastern Siberia. In the city of Yakutsk, various museum and scientific institutions hold collections and exhibits of Quaternary mammals collected at different times in different locations in the Arctic zone of Yakutia. These collections mostly represents the Late Pleistocene Mammoth Fauna, and are housed in the Emelyan Yarosslavsky’s Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North, the Mammoth Museum, the Geological Museum of Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Department of the Mammoth Fauna study, Academy of Sciences of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. These collections include woolly mammoth skeletons, other fragments of mammoths, woolly rhinoceros and horse carcasses, whole carcasses of steppe bison, cave lion cubs, and other fossil mammals, many bones and teeth of various mammals of the Mammoth Fauna. The study of these fossil mammal remains allow identification of features of their anatomy and morphology, as well as reconstruction of the ecological conditions at the time they were alive.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"32 6 1","pages":"477 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83604793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159040
M. Tedone, Rosie Grayburn
The Poison Book Project is an ongoing investigation into the use of heavy metal pigments in nineteenth-century bookbinding cloth and the risks associated with handling books bound in such cloth. A spectrum of pigment colors and toxicities are briefly explored. The most toxic heavy metals identified in bookcloth include arsenic, chromium, lead, and mercury, with arsenic being the most acutely toxic. The primary methods of analysis used by project researchers are X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy; however, non-instrumental identification methods for confirming the presence of arsenic are also considered. Bookcloth production techniques evolved over the course of the century and may influence the friability of finished bookcloth. Considerations about the varying friability of differently colored bookcloths inform handling advice.
{"title":"Toxic Tomes: Understanding the Use and Risks of Heavy Metals in Nineteenth-Century Bookcloth","authors":"M. Tedone, Rosie Grayburn","doi":"10.1177/15501906231159040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231159040","url":null,"abstract":"The Poison Book Project is an ongoing investigation into the use of heavy metal pigments in nineteenth-century bookbinding cloth and the risks associated with handling books bound in such cloth. A spectrum of pigment colors and toxicities are briefly explored. The most toxic heavy metals identified in bookcloth include arsenic, chromium, lead, and mercury, with arsenic being the most acutely toxic. The primary methods of analysis used by project researchers are X-ray fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy; however, non-instrumental identification methods for confirming the presence of arsenic are also considered. Bookcloth production techniques evolved over the course of the century and may influence the friability of finished bookcloth. Considerations about the varying friability of differently colored bookcloths inform handling advice.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"73 1","pages":"189 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75360176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160314
R. Kennedy, Nora Lockshin
The period following an emergency that has negatively affected a cultural institution can cause adverse mental health consequences, ranging from shame to grief regarding the status of the collection or how the response was handled. A continuous high stress environment, anxiety from overwork in an uncertain situation, and inability to detach or rest can lead to behavioral health issues. Response to pressure can lead to taking shortcuts or non-compliance with personal safety and lead to further harm to collections. Any of these reactions can be overwhelming and can lead to further neglect of health, safety, and security on the work site, in a demotivating spiral that can affect recovery and successful outcomes for all concerned. This paper covers concepts such as the psychosocial Phases of Disaster, terms used to identify experiences, validate emotional responses, and for incorporating behavioral mental health into collections emergencies training and operations. Case studies and resources for managing mental health including skills and tools to recognize the early signs of stress, encourage communication, avoid or handle triggers, and defuse situations, to help mitigate these problems and lay a foundation for positive outcomes are provided.
{"title":"Managing Mental Health in Cultural Heritage Emergency Response: Occupational Safety and Operational Resilience","authors":"R. Kennedy, Nora Lockshin","doi":"10.1177/15501906231160314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906231160314","url":null,"abstract":"The period following an emergency that has negatively affected a cultural institution can cause adverse mental health consequences, ranging from shame to grief regarding the status of the collection or how the response was handled. A continuous high stress environment, anxiety from overwork in an uncertain situation, and inability to detach or rest can lead to behavioral health issues. Response to pressure can lead to taking shortcuts or non-compliance with personal safety and lead to further harm to collections. Any of these reactions can be overwhelming and can lead to further neglect of health, safety, and security on the work site, in a demotivating spiral that can affect recovery and successful outcomes for all concerned. This paper covers concepts such as the psychosocial Phases of Disaster, terms used to identify experiences, validate emotional responses, and for incorporating behavioral mental health into collections emergencies training and operations. Case studies and resources for managing mental health including skills and tools to recognize the early signs of stress, encourage communication, avoid or handle triggers, and defuse situations, to help mitigate these problems and lay a foundation for positive outcomes are provided.","PeriodicalId":80959,"journal":{"name":"Collections : the newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, the Medical College of Pennsylvania","volume":"42 1","pages":"173 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75718352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159035
E. Hamilton, Jeff Sotek, Steve Poletski
The Hydra-Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde (1988) by Rebecca Horn was created with a significant volume of mercury as part of a multi-component installation. This work was acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 1990 and was examined prior to exhibition in 2017 to 2018. The mercury developed black accretions that were considered visually problematic. Concerns surrounding the health and safety of conservation treatment and exhibition were raised and the museum partnered with Amec Foster Wheeler (now WSP USA) to develop appropriate handling, treatment, and storage procedures. SFMOMA conservation and curatorial staff were in dialog with the artist’s studio throughout this process and this collaborative process was essential in deciding how to exhibit this work moving forward.
丽贝卡·霍恩(Rebecca Horn) 1988年创作的《Hydra-Forest: Performing Oscar Wilde》使用了大量的水银作为多组件装置的一部分。这幅作品于1990年被旧金山现代艺术博物馆(SFMOMA)收购，并在2017年至2018年的展览前进行了检查。汞形成了黑色的堆积，这在视觉上被认为是有问题的。人们对保护处理和展览的健康和安全提出了担忧，博物馆与Amec Foster Wheeler(现为WSP USA)合作，制定了适当的处理、处理和储存程序。在整个过程中，旧金山现代艺术博物馆的保护和策展人员与艺术家的工作室进行了对话，这种合作过程对于决定如何展出这件作品至关重要。
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