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Conservation
Type and Figured Collection
All museum collections
require periodic maintenance. The diverse origins of our
collections create challenging problems with respect to their curation.
Current efforts include major conservation within the type collection as part of an NSF project
Outlined below are some of these problems and how we have addressed them as part of a previous IMLS project.
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Images of historical publications with current status images illustrating deterioration

Fabienne Grellet-Tinner, when an undergraduate, cleaning and repairing damaged specimens.
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