Interest in Islamic art has grown enormously in recent years. Reflecting this awareness, in December 1998 Malaysia became home to Southeast Asia’s largest museum of Islamic art. The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia houses more than seven thousand artifacts’, as well as an exceptional library of Islamic art books. Artistic and cultural heritage objects worldwide are affected by the conditions in which they exist. None is free from the ravages of time and environment.
Through my observation of Islamic art museum especially in conservation practice, I could see, that the place are occupied with good equipment in aspect of conservation either on treatment nor preservation. There have four laboratory inside which are (laboratory), organic, inorganic, analytical, packaging. In lab on conservation of organic material that contain object of paper, parchment, textile, and leather, bone, ivory and wood are examined, documented and treated. The laboratories fully equipped with six work stations, washing tables, finishing presses, cutting and leaf casting machines, and custom designed drying racks. for inorganic laboratory is conducted in one purpose built laboratory fully equipped with six workstations, air extraction units, stereo microscopes, an air-abrasive unit and a full array of conservation grade adhesive, fillers and cleaning agents. Here ceramics, stone, glass and metals are examined, documented and treated.
For analytical lab, it plays an important role in material analysis and identification, the assessment of an object’s deterioration and the development of conservation strategies to ensure the preservation of artifacts. The Analytical Laboratory is fully equipped with three workstations, stereo, compound and polarizing light microscopes for the examination of material, an ultraviolet light inspection station, a reference database of historical materials used by Islamic artists and a climate chamber for the conduction for aging experiments.
Other than that, the place occupied with large room for store where all the object and artifact after the exhibition were kept. interview with the conservator, the room is very sensitive room, where all the aspect need to be observed from temperature, humidity, biological and physical factor and etc .regular inspection also to be done to make sure the object is in order, and any damages can be reported to examine and treatment.
Before the process of treatment, object will deal with photography session, where the entire problem, defect need to be documentation as a reference and analysis for the problem facing .this play as important role as evidence the object before and after the treatment. The expert photographer was hire to capture the good picture of the object. Next is room of packaging, is a room to identified and document the data of object that were receive.
Next based on the preventive aspect, aiming at arresting the Preventive conservation is a global strategy aimed at arresting the deterioration of objects by controlling the display and storage environments for each object. On that place, they control of climate and lighting levels within the museum using light meters and thermo hygrographs.
Last is my comment on the conservation team were worked at there, all The conservators are all university graduates with backgrounds in fine art, fine metal, chemistry and applied science and have undergone extensive training conducted by both local and international experts. All of them are expert with their field and can give good explanation in all the question were give by us and capable of dealing with the problem face by collection.
In conclusion, Islamic art museum provide a good service on the aspect of conservation and the place also quite well with the equipment for treatment and analysis. But in the expose of the conservation field toward people still need to be improved. People still no idea what is conservation is all about and the design layout of the exhibition need to be improved because quite boring and make all the object exhibit become dull and less attractive.
Through my observation of Islamic art museum especially in conservation practice, I could see, that the place are occupied with good equipment in aspect of conservation either on treatment nor preservation. There have four laboratory inside which are (laboratory), organic, inorganic, analytical, packaging. In lab on conservation of organic material that contain object of paper, parchment, textile, and leather, bone, ivory and wood are examined, documented and treated. The laboratories fully equipped with six work stations, washing tables, finishing presses, cutting and leaf casting machines, and custom designed drying racks. for inorganic laboratory is conducted in one purpose built laboratory fully equipped with six workstations, air extraction units, stereo microscopes, an air-abrasive unit and a full array of conservation grade adhesive, fillers and cleaning agents. Here ceramics, stone, glass and metals are examined, documented and treated.
For analytical lab, it plays an important role in material analysis and identification, the assessment of an object’s deterioration and the development of conservation strategies to ensure the preservation of artifacts. The Analytical Laboratory is fully equipped with three workstations, stereo, compound and polarizing light microscopes for the examination of material, an ultraviolet light inspection station, a reference database of historical materials used by Islamic artists and a climate chamber for the conduction for aging experiments.
Other than that, the place occupied with large room for store where all the object and artifact after the exhibition were kept. interview with the conservator, the room is very sensitive room, where all the aspect need to be observed from temperature, humidity, biological and physical factor and etc .regular inspection also to be done to make sure the object is in order, and any damages can be reported to examine and treatment.
Before the process of treatment, object will deal with photography session, where the entire problem, defect need to be documentation as a reference and analysis for the problem facing .this play as important role as evidence the object before and after the treatment. The expert photographer was hire to capture the good picture of the object. Next is room of packaging, is a room to identified and document the data of object that were receive.
Next based on the preventive aspect, aiming at arresting the Preventive conservation is a global strategy aimed at arresting the deterioration of objects by controlling the display and storage environments for each object. On that place, they control of climate and lighting levels within the museum using light meters and thermo hygrographs.
Last is my comment on the conservation team were worked at there, all The conservators are all university graduates with backgrounds in fine art, fine metal, chemistry and applied science and have undergone extensive training conducted by both local and international experts. All of them are expert with their field and can give good explanation in all the question were give by us and capable of dealing with the problem face by collection.
In conclusion, Islamic art museum provide a good service on the aspect of conservation and the place also quite well with the equipment for treatment and analysis. But in the expose of the conservation field toward people still need to be improved. People still no idea what is conservation is all about and the design layout of the exhibition need to be improved because quite boring and make all the object exhibit become dull and less attractive.
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