Providing Safe and Practical Environments for Cultural Properties in Historic Buildings and Beyond

Abstract

Although I did not know it at the time, from the day I started as a newly trained conservator at Shelburne Museum in 1982, I stepped onto the path of creating and maintaining efficient, sustainable preservations environments. I quickly discovered that if I was to have any success in preserving over 150,000 artifacts exhibited and stored in 29 buildings that included many historic structures spread over 40 acres in the harsh Vermont climate, any environmental control methods I developed would have to be affordable to purchase and install, economical to operate, and easy to maintain, in other words: sustainable.

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