Discovery of crafts and preventive restoration
For this 40th edition of the European Heritage Days, under the theme "Living Heritage", the museum proposes to:
- Live an exceptional moment in the life of a museum: the installation of a bubble of anoxia to save the collections of the historical farm.
- Meet with professionals in preventive restoration to better understand how objects can cross centuries.
- Discover the different crafts, from scientific service to mediators, from the role of conservation of objects to that of story-teller...
Anoxie? Anoxie? Anoxie!
An anoxia bubble should eliminate the larvae of insect pests responsible for large degradation. At the end of the summer, the collections (objects, furniture, tools, etc.) will be placed under an anoxia tent.
Composed of plastic and aluminum guaranteeing its tightness, the anoxia bubble deprives of oxygen xylophage insects (wood eaters) and keratinoophages (hair and fur eaters), and asphyxia as well as larvae and eggs. This preventive conservation technique, intended to prevent heavier restoration operations, consists of replacing oxygen with nitrogen, a neutral compound, and thus avoids the use of insecticide, loaded with chemical agents that could damage materials and colors.
Bulle d'anoxie in partnership with Aubriac
