Collections- Volume: 21, Number: 1 (March 2025)
Focus Issue: Hazardous Heritage
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Introduction
Introduction to the Focus Issue: Hazardous Heritage
Henna Sinisalo and Doris Blancquaert
Hazardous Heritage
Journey into a Toxic Past: Pest Control in Museums at the End of the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century in Germany and Beyond
Helene Tello
Museum Professionals’ Perceptions of Chemical and Biological Hazards and Risks in Museum Work Environments in Finland
Henna Sinisalo
Hearing Victims’ Voices: The Asbestos Story in the Archive
Arthur McIvor
Asbestos as Difficult Heritage: The Need for a Multi-Voiced Heritage Policy
Doris Blancquaert and Hélène Verreyke
Tracing Toxic Agency—Exploring the Open-Air Museums and Their Contaminated Vernacular Buildings
Anne-Sofie Hjemdahl and Terje Planke
Disappearing Façades: The Challenges Behind Asbestos-Containing Façade Materials Heritage Value and Significance from a Curator’s Viewpoint
Liisa Katariina Ruuska-Jauhijärvi
Addressing the Presence of Arsenical Bindings in the British Library’s Collections
Amy Baldwin, Paul Garside and Nicole Monjeau
All Bottled Up: Hazard Assessment of an Historic Pharmaceutical Collection
Anna Fowler, Kerith Koss Schrager and Nancie Ravenel
From Poison Books to “Bibliotoxicology”: Highlighting Hazards in Paper-Based Library Collections
Rosie Grayburn and Melissa Tedone
Hazardous Heritage Within the War Heritage Institute
Saskia Van de Voorde and Zoë-Joy Vangansewinkel
Congress Review: Hazardous Heritage: Working With and Around Dangerous Materials in Cultural Heritage, 23 to 24.10.2023, Antwerp, Belgium
Liisa Katariina Ruuska-Jauhijärvi, Marleena Vihakara and Doris Blancquaert
Publishing in the Archives Profession 