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A guidebook to the museums of Metro Manila
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listing consequently bears a close resemblance to the shelf lists of an exceptionally well-stocked museological library which, inexplicably, lacks a periodicals section and its author and subject indexes, and the researcher presumably has to turn immediately to the UNESCO-ICOM International Museological Bibliography or one of the other less comprehensive annual bibliographies. Almost as frustrating, and seriously misleading in the future, is the section devoted to ICOM and its International Committees (entries 330-352). Correctly described as an international, non-governmental and professional organization, it states that the list of (current) chairmen and secretaries of the ICOM International Committees is to be found in the current issue of ICOM News, only then to list institutions and not individuals as their chairmen/secretaries when the holders of these posts have to change every few years, in accordance with the ICOM Statutes, and their institutions are in consequence likely to be troubled for years to come by ill-addressed mail. 1990.2.6.2 A Guidebook to the Manila, by Regalado
Museums
of Metro
Trota Jose. 242 x 192mm, vii + 120pp., illustrated in black and white and colour. Manila, Presidential Commission on Culture and Arts, 1988 (ISBN 971 91161 01). National Museum, P. Burgos Drive, Manila, Philippines.
As a centre for museums devoted to a wide range of subjects, Manila has rapidly grown in importance during recent decades, and this new Guidebook is now able to list 19. The dioramas of the Ayala Museum of Philippine History and Iconographic Archives are justly famous with visitors to Manila, as are the exhibition programmes of the Metropolitan Museum and the broadly based collections of the National Museum and the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences (origins of collections traceable back to 1611), but the recently opened museum of the Malacanang Palace and the other museums based in historic buildings, such as the San Agustin Museum (monastery built 1587-1607), have much to offer to the discerning visitor as well as to
local residents. For each museum is provided a note as to its location, telephone number, mailing address, opening hours and admission charges, together with very informative short histories of the institution and descriptions of their collections and facilities. The Philippine Association of Museums initiated the project in 1985 and since 1987 it has been supported by the newly established Presidential Commission on Culture and Art, and the select bibliography included, taken with the individual entries, encourages further investigation. 1990.2.11.1 Curatorial
Care of Works of Art on Paper, by Anne F. Clapp. 234 X 176 mm,, xii + 196 pp. with diagrams. New York, Nick Lyons Books, 1987, s16.00 (ISBN 0 951130 31 2). Nick Lyons Books, 31 West 21 Street, New York, NY 10010, USA, and Conservation Resources (UK) Ltd, Unit 1, Pony Road, Horspath Industrial Estate, Cowley, Oxford OX4 2RD, UK.
For almost twenty years Anne Clapp’s authoritative handbook on the care of works of art on paper has been an essential day-to-day tool for anyone entrusted with the care of prints, drawings and watercolours, and the earlier editions were published as a monograph of the Inter-museum Laboratory of Oberlin, Ohio. This new edition, published by Nick Lyons Books, has been substantially revised and augmented, and, as the title emphasizes, it is designed to aid the skilled conservation technician, private or institutional, but not to encourage the untrained to attempt techniques of advanced conservation. Divided into three parts, the first covers the ‘Factors Potentially Harmful to Paper’, before moving on to ‘Procedures’ and ‘Requirements for the Care of Paper’, and the author discusses the environment (exterior climate) and the interior climate before reviewing the effects on paper of harmful factors such as dampness, dryness, heat, acidity, light and biological enemies. The cautionary account of deacidification is essential reading for all those contemplating mass treatment, and the chapter summarizing the factors harmful to paper is concise and particularly valuable. Part II : ‘Procedures’,
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listing consequently bears a close resemblance to the shelf lists of an exceptionally well-stocked museological library which, inexplicably, lacks a periodicals section and its author and subject indexes, and the researcher presumably has to turn immediately to the UNESCO-ICOM International Museological Bibliography or one of the other less comprehensive annual bibliographies. Almost as frustrating, and seriously misleading in the future, is the section devoted to ICOM and its International Committees (entries 330-352). Correctly described as an international, non-governmental and professional organization, it states that the list of (current) chairmen and secretaries of the ICOM International Committees is to be found in the current issue of ICOM News, only then to list institutions and not individuals as their chairmen/secretaries when the holders of these posts have to change every few years, in accordance with the ICOM Statutes, and their institutions are in consequence likely to be troubled for years to come by ill-addressed mail. 1990.2.6.2 A Guidebook to the Manila, by Regalado
Museums
of Metro
Trota Jose. 242 x 192mm, vii + 120pp., illustrated in black and white and colour. Manila, Presidential Commission on Culture and Arts, 1988 (ISBN 971 91161 01). National Museum, P. Burgos Drive, Manila, Philippines.
As a centre for museums devoted to a wide range of subjects, Manila has rapidly grown in importance during recent decades, and this new Guidebook is now able to list 19. The dioramas of the Ayala Museum of Philippine History and Iconographic Archives are justly famous with visitors to Manila, as are the exhibition programmes of the Metropolitan Museum and the broadly based collections of the National Museum and the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences (origins of collections traceable back to 1611), but the recently opened museum of the Malacanang Palace and the other museums based in historic buildings, such as the San Agustin Museum (monastery built 1587-1607), have much to offer to the discerning visitor as well as to
local residents. For each museum is provided a note as to its location, telephone number, mailing address, opening hours and admission charges, together with very informative short histories of the institution and descriptions of their collections and facilities. The Philippine Association of Museums initiated the project in 1985 and since 1987 it has been supported by the newly established Presidential Commission on Culture and Art, and the select bibliography included, taken with the individual entries, encourages further investigation. 1990.2.11.1 Curatorial
Care of Works of Art on Paper, by Anne F. Clapp. 234 X 176 mm,, xii + 196 pp. with diagrams. New York, Nick Lyons Books, 1987, s16.00 (ISBN 0 951130 31 2). Nick Lyons Books, 31 West 21 Street, New York, NY 10010, USA, and Conservation Resources (UK) Ltd, Unit 1, Pony Road, Horspath Industrial Estate, Cowley, Oxford OX4 2RD, UK.
For almost twenty years Anne Clapp’s authoritative handbook on the care of works of art on paper has been an essential day-to-day tool for anyone entrusted with the care of prints, drawings and watercolours, and the earlier editions were published as a monograph of the Inter-museum Laboratory of Oberlin, Ohio. This new edition, published by Nick Lyons Books, has been substantially revised and augmented, and, as the title emphasizes, it is designed to aid the skilled conservation technician, private or institutional, but not to encourage the untrained to attempt techniques of advanced conservation. Divided into three parts, the first covers the ‘Factors Potentially Harmful to Paper’, before moving on to ‘Procedures’ and ‘Requirements for the Care of Paper’, and the author discusses the environment (exterior climate) and the interior climate before reviewing the effects on paper of harmful factors such as dampness, dryness, heat, acidity, light and biological enemies. The cautionary account of deacidification is essential reading for all those contemplating mass treatment, and the chapter summarizing the factors harmful to paper is concise and particularly valuable. Part II : ‘Procedures’,