[Nhcoll-l] lighting guidelines for fluid preserved specimens in exhibitions

[Esther Dondorp]

Dear all,

For our new exhibitions we have some fluid preserved (ethanol) specimens
that will be on display for the public. For dry mounted specimens we have
lighting guidelines but for fluid preserved specimens it is thought that
there are no restrictions because ethanol does fade the colors anyway. I
think that light can decolorate a fluid specimen too so that we need some
standards for them aswell.

I am curious what others use as a light regime for fluid specimens. How
long and under what lightstrength (lux) do you exhibit an alchol specimen
to make sure it does not fade too much?


Many thanks,


Esther Dondorp
collections manager






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