Fleet Air Arm Museum display conservation
Conservation is an important aspect of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and the museums collection management program. The care of our collection is central to our work here at the museum.
Our conservation plan helps us to provide a framework for establishing and maintaining appropriate standards of collection care and for setting priorities for our conservation work. We apply two types of conservation here at the Fleet Air Arm Museum; preventative and interventive.
Preventative conservation is about ensuring that our collection is stored, displayed, handled and maintained in a way which does not lead to deterioration or damage. This includes testing materials, environmental monitoring such as light and humidity levels, collection assessment and pest monitoring and control.
Interventive conservation is about repairing damage or decay through investigation, cleaning, stabilising, restoring and recording.
The conservation work you see being carried out here is interventive conservation.
