Conservation préventive au Musée Crozatier : vers une renaissance assurée

Abstract

Collections renovation… cleaning museum objects, re-packing of collections… Marking of collections… photography… digitization of collections… are some of the key words that have been anchored in the daily activities of a museum, which, at last, enters, in 2012, in an active phase of architectural renovation! The Crozatier Museum closed its doors to the Public in June 2011, its renovation will take place between 2012 and 2014. With this project in mind, and already before its proper renovation, the Museum formed a team several months ago to undertake an extensive cataloguing and re-packing project that draws on a rigorous preventive conservation strategy. Indeed, the Crozatier Museum has been involved over the past years in a profound restructuration in order to offer the Public a modernized vision of its museographic trail and before doing so, it opted for a profound change to ensure the best conservation conditions for its collections. The driving force behind this change comes from a curator, Gilles Grandjean, who aimed to manage more efficiently heritage collections in the context of the increasing professionalization which colonized museums, behind the scene, during the 1990s. An experimented professional in the sector of preventive conservation was selected, through public procurement contract, by the Museum and an agglomeration community (a metropolitan government structure) to provide assistance for the renovation. In this context, the Museum team embraced the project and committed itself to change working habits in order to adopt innovating working processes and radically transform its missions… (Carine Durand)

Keywords

• développement durable
• récolement
• conservation préventive
• chantier de collection
• formation de personnel
• visibilité