Canadian Conservation Institute

🤔 What can you do to ensure sustainable climate control in your heritage institution?

In this four-part series, we’ll share calls to action to explore how environmental, social and economic responsibility can support the long-term care and meaningful use of heritage collections.

📢 First call to action: respect the rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to make decisions about how their belongings are cared for, preserved, accessed and used.

Social responsibility in sustainable climate control includes transparency, accountability and policies that support rather than restrict access to cultural belongings. It means caring for collections in ways that also respect people, relationships and living cultures. 🤝

As we recognize National Indigenous History Month, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring that our preservation practices align with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and that we respect Indigenous self-determination, cultural rights and traditional knowledge.

Learn more about our “Climate Guidelines” and how they are grounded in a broader understanding of sustainability that extends beyond environmental impact alone.

🔗 https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/preventive-conservation/climate-guidelines.html

👀 Check out the Canadian Heritage Information Network’s (CHIN) updated digital preservation landing page.

You’ll find new links to tools and resources, such as “CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance,” as well as a more user-friendly navigation that categorizes the tools and resources by type of action: planning, selecting, storing, etc.

With links to 41 tools and resources from CHIN and other organizations, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for.

🔗 https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digital-preservation.html

🔍✨ Go behind the scenes of the treatment of a 1907 view camera from the Musée Colby-Curtis / Société historique de Stanstead . 🏛️

Last year, we posted that Conservator Anne-Stéphanie Etienne would perform a conservation and restoration treatment on a view camera once owned by John Joel Parker. This first video showcases the before treatment process. Watch it to find out how she uses the manufacturer’s sales catalogues, photographic documentation as well as scientific imaging and analysis in order to identify the view camera’s model, construction and materials and to develop a treatment proposal.

Discover how the process unfolds below, and stay tuned for our next video! ⬇️

CCI/ICC CHIN/RCIP View Camera, Before Treatment