http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the TAM projects has been condition reporting, treating and re-housing the Early Photographs Collection of Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes. The daguerreotype was one of the earliest forms of photography. It is a permanently fixed, mirror-like silver image on a polished copper plate. By adjusting the angle it is held by, ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=86 Ever since the Powerhouse Museum opened in 1988, curator, Lindie Ward and textile conservator, Suzanne Chee have been making simple paper wigs for the museum's mannequins. The wigs they have created are mimimal and they enhance rather than detract from the dress on display. Yet, with a few strips of ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=72 A major project to overhaul the Observatory's 11.5" Schroder Telescope has been recently completed. It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Observatory this year. The key aim was to return the telescope to its 1880s appearance and configuration. New operational and maintenance plans have also been developed. The telescope ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=41 We have received funding for a four year project called TAM –Total asset management). The project focuses on our collection, rather than on exhibitions. The objective is to preserve, document and manage the collection so that it can be made more widely accessible. One component of the project that is nearing ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=36 Tim Morris, conservator metal and small technology, is currently working on a model that demonstrates a principle of physics. It was conserved in 1986 using products that would be used if it was to be operated on a regular basis. These products were designed for optimum operation of the object, ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=10 During the period 1929-55, the museum director Arthur de Raymond Penfold became fascinated by a new material called plastic and stated: ˜The way they stirred the imagination of the public is as much a marvel as the wizardry of the modern organic chemist who gave us the great invention. Object H4146-16 The ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=9 We recently acquired the famous Generco Bi-plane, the only plane to have flown under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It did this prior to the opening in 1932. The bi-plane has been stored at Wiseman's Ferry in a hangar. The plane could not be flown onto our storage site so it ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=5 Storing collections can take a lot of work. We have recently started on a storage project that will take at least a year to finish. It is a project that has come from the gay community and it involves the acquisition of 109 quilts forming part of the Australian AIDS ... http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/preservation/?p=4