Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge

This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpens...

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Main Authors: Sophie Rowe, Flavia Ravaioli, Catherine Tully, Megan Narvey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-07-01
Series:Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
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Online Access:https://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/157