Preventive conservation and sustainability of heritage collections in transit
- Ana Galán-Pérez 1
- Francisco Javier Galán-Pérez
- Anna Biedermann 2
- Luis Ferreiro
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Departamento de Pintura y Conservación-Restauración.
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Universidad de Zaragoza
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ISSN: 1647-2098
Year of publication: 2020
Pages: 31-51
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudos de Conservação e Restauro
Abstract
This paper aims to present the complexity of the preventive conservation and sustainability of the collections that are included in the temporary exhibition ‘Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away’, opened in Madrid in December 2017 and scheduled to travel to new destinations over the next 7 years. It was produced in co-operation with the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland. The exhibit objects belong to more than twenty international collections concerned with the Heritage of the Holocaust. The methodology to analyze the sustainability of a traveling exhibition has been introduced, in the stage of the preparation, production, assembly, operation, disassembly, and transportation to the next venue, in order to take into consideration the whole Life Cycle of the exhibition. The indicators to consider its impact in the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social has been proposed.