Strategies for Removing or Masking Old Museum Accession Numbers

Description: 

Jennifer Kim, Objects Conservator at Los Angeles Art Conservation, and Evelynn Bird, Conservation Intern at NMAI, review historic and current methods for marking identifying numbers onto items, as well as ways to remove them when needed. They discuss the potential risks to different materials when removing numbers and labels, identify when safe removal or masking of the marking is possible, and demonstrate methods for doing so. This video was filmed at the 2022 ATALM annual conference held in Temecula, California on October 25-27, 2022.

Protocol: 
Public Access
Community: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Category: 
Archival Processing
Keywords: 
labels, museum
Collections: 
2022 ATALM Resources, 2022 ATALM Short Video Tutorials
Original Date: 
2022 October 27th
Creator: 
Jennifer Kim, Evelynn Bird
Language: 
English
Licensing Options: 
Creative Commons License

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Publisher: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Format: 
MP4
Citation: 
Kim, Jennifer, and Evelynn Bird. "Strategies for Removing or Masking Old Museum Accession Numbers." Sustainable Heritage Network. Accessed 19 April 2024, sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/strategies-removing-or-masking-old-museum-accession-numbers