Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge

• Published in: Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
• Main Authors: Sophie Rowe, Flavia Ravaioli, Catherine Tully, Megan Narvey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ubiquity Press 2018
• Subjects: object conservation; sustainability; mount; gut parka; Inuit; protein analysis; network; Museums. Collectors and collecting; AM1-501; Parka; The Polar Museum; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.157; https://doaj.org/article/2a76bbb6bea7422f9057089b57405d29

This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpens...