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The Toxic Museum: Berlin and Beyond

The Toxic Museum: Berlin and Beyond

Tello, Helene

Hardcover

Business GeneralConservation & PreservationGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1032526343
ISBN13: 9781032526348
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 29 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Toxic Museum examines the use of pesticides in German museum collections at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

It reconstructs the research of substances against harmful insects in museum collections within the historical context of the formation of nation-states, colonialism, a strengthening chemical industry, the First World War, and the resulting broad-based hygiene movement through the lens of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Berlin. Because of their persistence, the consequences of the use of pesticides in museum collections are now unmistakable and well documented in many places. Numerous objects are highly contaminated and are only accessible under difficult conditions regarding occupational health and safety. This creates obstacles for conservation and scientific processing, as well as for mediation in the context of exhibitions and external loans. The most precarious and difficult situations arise when contaminated museum objects are repatriated to their countries of origin. This monograph examines contemporary challenges in the 21st century museum landscape and contextualises the history of pesticide use at the turn of the 20th century.

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