Museums and Conservation

Walter Henry maintains the CoOL Web Server a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries. CoOL is a full text database of conservation information. The databases cover a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.

Conservation oriented sites

• The World Heritage Center
• UNESCO's World Heritage List
• International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• ICOMOS Main Page
• Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation and Archaeology
• ICCROM Library Catalogue
• The Getty Conservation Institute
• JAIC, the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
• Ancient Monuments Laboratory
• Canadian Heritage Information Network
• The Burra Charter
• American Ceramic Society
• Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies // link 2
• Indoor Air Pollution Working Group
• Movie Poster Conservation
• A Guide to Photographic Documentation in the Field
• Links to other conservation sites
• Indoor Air Pollution in Museums and Archives
• Conservation and Art Materials Dictionary
• World Conservators Forum
• A History of Fish Glue as an Artist's Material
• Setbacks in Conservation
• SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone
• National Preservation Office

Listings related to Color:

• CIE Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage
• Munsell Color
• Munsell Color Science Laboratory
• The Coloring Pages
• Society of Dyers and Colourists
• Poynton's Color FAQ
• Color Vision Demonstrations
• Light booth tutorial
• Browser-safe palette

Listings related to Printer Inks:

• Wilhelm Imaging Research
• Digital Prints: Technology, Materials, Image Quality & Stability
• The Epson "Photo Paper" Longevity Test
• Preservation of Ink Jet Hardcopies
• Kathleen Orlenko, article in May 1999 issue of AIC News, "Fugitive Modern Media" particularly the section "Conservation Implications of Computer Generated Printing: The Ink Jet Printer"

Listings related to Dyeing Cloth:

• The Woad Page
• Dyes Online
• Dye recipes from the Innsbruck Manuscript

Listings related to Archaeology:

• Journal of Field Archaeology
• American Rock Art Research Association
• Virtual Dig excavations at Çatalhöyük.
• Rock Links
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page
• The Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
• Sites in the Near East
• The Ancient World Web
• The acid-hot water method for fossil extraction

Some interesting museum sites:

• Global Museum
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums contains lots of listings of museums.
• Charlotte, The Vermont Whale.
• Information Servers at the Smithsonian Institution
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• EXPO Ticket Office
• Go from memory lane to the fast lane at
• Australian War Memorial
• LA County Museum of Art
• See the Sistine Chapel
• Sistine Chapel Cleaning
• Tour of the Forbidden City
• World Art Treasures
• One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles