TY  - BOOK
AU  - Podany, Jerry, ed.
TI  - Advances in the protection of museum collections from earthquake damage: papers from a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Villa on May 3- 4, 2006
SN  - 9780892369089
U1  - 069.50289 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - J. Paul Getty Museum
KW  - Art
KW  - Conservation and restoration
KW  - Museum buildings
KW  - Earthquake effects
KW  - Earthquake resistant design
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; Michael Brand --; The Challenge; Jerry Podany --; New Developments in Seismology: The Ground Motion Environment of the Los Angeles Region; Paul G. Somerville and Robert W. Graves --; Seismic Isolation and Damping Systems: Improving Earthquake Performance of Buildings; Charles A. Kircher and Alex G. Tarics --; Developments in Seismic Protection of Historic Structures; William S. Ginell --; Seismic Protection of Museums and Museum Collections in India; O. P. Agrawal --; Seismic Mount Making: A Review of the Protection of Objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum from Earthquake Damage; McKenzie Lowry, B. J. Farrar, David Armendariz and Jerry Podany --; Finalizing the Design of Seismic Isolators for the Antiquities Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Matthew J. Schoettler and Andreas Stavridis --; The Seismic Isolation of Rodin's The Gates of Hell; Kimio Kawaguchi --; Seismic Risk Mitigation in Istanbul Museums; Mustafa Erdik, Neura Erturk and Eser Durukal --; Seismic Mitigation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco; Donna Strahan --; Case Study: A Review of Seismic Mitigation Efforts for Museums in Greece; Constantine Spyrakos, Ioannis Koutromanos and Charilaos Maniatakis --; Seismic Isolation System for the Statue of Hermes at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia; Vlasis Koumousis --; Earthquake Mitigation at the Seattle Art Museum; Nicholas Dorman --; Case Studies: The Conservator's Role in Seismic Mitigation of Artwork at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; John W. Hirx --; Earthquake Protection of Historic House Collections in California State Parks; Nancy Mendez, Karen Hildebrand and Robert Sieger --; Protecting Temporary Exhibitions from Earthquakes: Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment; Brian Considine and Ziyad Duron --; Performance Expectations for Microcrystalline Waxes for the Seismic Protection of Art Objects; Anne Crowley and Debra F. Laefer --; Case Study: Low-Budget Seismic Mitigation Methods for a Museum in Ithaca; Victoria McGuinness
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