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Scientists seek ways
to preserve artifacts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mu
sflum experts am struggling to
find ways to prevent 20th Cen
tury artifacts from becoming
the dust of history Modern ma
terials in painting*, sculpture
and oven space suits are
flunking the test of time, they
say.
Mary T Baker, a scientist at
the Smithsonian Institution,
said Wednesday that polymer
based plastics have become an
important part of modem lifo
und thousands of objects and
works of art collected in the na
llnn'i museum* «rr> mudo of
this matorial And many are
rapidiy decomposing, she said.
"Wo would like to think
these polymer materials would
last forever." Baker said at a
convention of the American
Chemical Society. "Unfortu
nately, we are finding that
polymers degrade very quickly
by museum standards. Muse
ums tend to think in centur
ies."
Paintings made with acrylics
and other modern tints can
flake and crack within a short
time, she said Efforts to protect
the works can speed up the de
terioration.
"Coatings can yellow or be
come brittle, obscuring the
puintings they were meant to
protect." said Baker. "Adhe
sives can yellow or weaken,
disfiguring or endangering the
object they were used to re
pair. "
Elyse Klein, a Smithsonian
expert on art preservation, said
some sculptors in the 1920s
and 1930s worked in plastic
materials that have rapidly
crumbled away.
She said a work sculpted in
the 1930s in nitrocellulose
seemed to be iri good shape
while it was stored in a glass
case. But when the work was
exposed to ordinary air, it
quickly disintegrated.
Klein said museum curators
often don't know what materi
als are used in a work of art
and without this knowledge, ef
forts at preservation can actual
ly create more probloms. Some
now aro turning to the FBI for
chemical tests to identify all
the compounds present in a
painting.
Acrylic paints, introduced in
1953, now are used in about 75
percent of artistic paintings.
And, yet, said Klein, there is
still little known for sure about
the best temperature and hu
midity for the storage of acrylic
works, or how best to protect
them. Methods used to preserve
and restore paintings by the
great masters of oarlier contur
ies can actually destroy acrylic
paintings.
Science still doesn't the best
way to store and preserve many
of the plastic objects now in the
Inventories of museums, said
Baker. The result is the whole
sale lass of art and artifacts.
''We're seeing losses in
things that are only 10 to 20
years old, especially if thoy
were stored under poor condi
tions," sho said, "liven a simple
cleaning can start deterioration
in some things.”
Eric B. binge of the Smith
sonian Air and Space Museum
said an effort is being made to
find the best way of preserving
HH space suits from the early
days of the space program
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