with design professionals -- Preventive conservation and restoration: a matter of costs -- Let's be honest: realistic environmental parameters for loaned objects -- Relative humidity re-examined -- Hygrometric measurement in museums -- Preventive conservation at the Field Museum -- Moving the collections at the Royal British Columbia Museum -- Preserving conceptual integrity: ethics and theory in preventive conservation -- Traditional care and conservation, the merging of two disciplines at the National Museum of the American Indian -- PREMA: a conservation strategy for African collections -- Preventive conservation within conservation training programmes -- A methodology of preventive conservation for a large, expanding and mixed archaeological collection -- Control of climate for rock-cliff sculptures against frost shattering, mold growth and salt efflorescence -- Preventive strategies for reducing the impact of visitors on the microenvironment of caves at Morgao Grottoes -- The conservation of the Cueva de Altamira -- Direct measurements to determine sandstone deterioration -- Preventing salt damage in porous materials -- The wall paintings of Gundsomagle church, Denmark -- Mediaeval wooden churches in a cold climate ... -- Ambient atmosphere conditions as a significant factor in the conservation of an altarpiece ... Preventive conservation of stained glass windows -- The preservation of historic houses and sites ... -- Appropriate technologies for relative humidity control for museum collections housed in historic buildings -- Insect trapping in museums and historic houses -- The impact of overvisiting: methods of assessing the sustainable capacity of historic houses -- The Ruskin Library ... -- Comparative study of air-conditioned and non air-conditioned museums -- Moisture, ventilation and mould growth -- New storage facility for the National Museum of Science and Industry -- Cultural property environmental monitoring -- Pollution monitoring in storage and display cabinets ... -- The environmental performance of display cases -- Passive monitoring for museum showcase pollutants -- Oxygen-free storage using Ageless oxygen absorber -- Performance of wooden storage cases ... -- The transport of paintings in microclimate display cases -- Wavelength-dependent fading of artists' pigments -- Air pollution effects on library microforms -- Surveying large collections of photographs for archival survival -- Evaluations of storage and display conditions for cellulose nitrate objects -- MicroChamber papers used as a preventive conservation material -- Study of the homogeneity of mass deacidification treatments ... -- The applicability of alkaline reserves to painting canvases -- The role of costume mounting in preventive conservation -- The development of an earthquake-safe mounting system for a collection of Ancient Greek vases -- French abstracts