Dear colleagues, I have been researching sheet music collections in Brazil. Here, we face challenges ranging from basic aspects of document conservation and collection mapping to the production of catalogs. I would like to know a more general overview, especially outside Western European countries. I appreciate your collaboration!
The conservation of cultural heritage here in Germany is strongly decentralized and therefore the quality may vary, although since Germany is in a moderate climate zone, demands are probably a lot lower than in a tropical country like Brazil.
In most places here the conservation itself works decently, but since many catalogues of the smaller archives are still not fully digitalized, we have new discoveries every once in a while.
The decently working conservation has its terribly spectacular exceptions, though. Two of the worst examples were the fire of the Anna-Amalia library, due to improper electric wiring, causing among other things the loss of some Joseph Haydn originals or the collapse of the Cologne city archive, due to a corrupt subway construction site in which a lot of the steel that was supposed to go into the concrete was sold on the black market, causing the loss of the Jacques Offenbach heritage.
Thank you very much, Dr. Weippert! Both cases are indeed regrettable. Unfortunately, situations like this are relatively common in Brazil.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Publishing