Best Practices

The preservation of installation art draws on every aspect of the preservation field--a reflection of the breadth of practices involved in its creation. As befits the media-based content of this site, these best practices will take a narrow focus: on how to preserve the media components of an installation work for the long term.

Even so, this document is a work in progress-designed to lay out the fundamental questions these works raise, and to gather the most recent research in the field.

Documentation

Inventory & Cataloging

Behavior & Environment

Numbering

Labeling

Inspection

Conservation

Preservation

Resources