Museums and Conservation

Walter Henry maintains the CoOL Web Server a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries. CoOL is a full text database of conservation information. The databases cover a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.

Conservation oriented sites

• The World Heritage Center
• UNESCO's World Heritage List
• International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• The Getty Conservation Institute
• JAIC, the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
• The Burra Charter
• American Ceramic Society
• Indoor Air Pollution Working Group
• Movie Poster Conservation
• Links to other conservation sites
• Indoor Air Pollution in Museums and Archives
• Conservation and Art Materials Dictionary
• A History of Fish Glue as an Artist's Material

Listings related to Color:

• Munsell Color Science Laboratory
• The Coloring Pages
• Society of Dyers and Colourists
• Browser-safe palette
• Traité des couleurs servant a la peinture a l'eau by A. Boogert 1692 watercolor guide
• Opticks: a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton, 1730

Listings related to Printer Inks:

• Wilhelm Imaging Research
• Kathleen Orlenko, article in May 1999 issue of AIC News, "Fugitive Modern Media" particularly the section "Conservation Implications of Computer Generated Printing: The Ink Jet Printer"

Listings related to Dyeing Cloth:

• The Woad Page
• Dyes Online
• Dye recipes from the Innsbruck Manuscript

Listings related to Archaeology:

• Journal of Field Archaeology
• The Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
• The Ancient World Web
• The acid-hot water method for fossil extraction
• Don's Maps

Some interesting museum sites:

• Information Servers at the Smithsonian Institution
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• EXPO Ticket Office
• Go from memory lane to the fast lane at the Petersen Automotive Museum
• Australian War Memorial
• LA County Museum of Art
• Renovation of the Huntington Art Gallery Following the 1985 Fire
• Sistine Chapel Cleaning
• World Art Treasures
• One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles

Last Updated: January 29, 2020