Caring for Your Collections

This guide for the private collector provides a comprehensive description of how to preserve and maintain collected art and other objects. Beautifully illustrated with many photographs of handsome objects, chapters cover paintings, works of art on paper, books, stamps, photographs, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, metal, stone, musical instruments, and ethnographic objects such as baskets and masks. Sponsored by the National Committee to Save America's Cultural Collections, many experts, including several professional art conservators, have authored the different chapters. The amount of information presented is exhaustive.