Konserwacja zabytków papierowych Działu Historii Muzeum w Raciborzu w latach 2010–2014
Conservation of Paper Exhibits Belonging to the Department of History of the Museum in Racibórz in years 2010–2014

Summary/Abstract: Currently the Department of History of the Museum in Racibórz have custody over almost 9,000 exhibits, roughly half of them are paper items. Among them there are a large group of documents and magazines from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the quality of the raw materials used for printing was at a very low level. Many of them are made of acid paper which significantly decreases their durability. Care about their state of the exhibits’ preservation has become one of the most urgent tasks of the Department in recent times. In the years 2010–2014, 75 historic paper exhibits from the Department of History (documents, magazines, maps, old prints and other prints) were submitted to complete conservation. Some of the exhibits belonging to the said set have been presented in the following article. Those are for example: the old print of so-called Biblia Leopolity, the third edition of 1577, and a nineteenth-century map entitled: Brandenburgia. Szląsk i W. Ks. Poznańskie. On their examples, the author of the work discusses the most common problems that conservators encountered during their work.

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