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Museum Techniques in Preservation

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15708/
 
Title Museum Techniques in Preservation
 
Creator Raju, Aju K
Sreekumar, K M
 
Subject Marine Biodiversity
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description When we search in the past about the preservation of natural history, it is nature that stands as
the first museum as well as the curator. Nature did the first-ever clearing of massive fleshy
creatures; stored specimens on various racks of the planet’s crust, in rocky and icy jars; used
inventive preservatives like amber that kept the specimens untainted for millions of years. Later,
when people began digging for natural history at the dawn of modern science all the valuable
collections that nature preserved over the vast geological time scale became the major tools for
taxonomy and systematic studies as well as, recently, for species conservation measures.
Modern science followed that path of nature to preserve specimens of organisms in a more
sophisticated manner for the future. Thus numerous natural history museums were established
over the last few centuries that now accommodate millions of specimens collected from across
the planet.
The three major steps of museum techniques can be broadly named as collection, fixation and
preservation. All these steps are equally important in which sloppiness in any of them will result
in the loss of valuable collections. For those people who are involved in museum practices, it
is important to understand the historical, scientific, cultural, aesthetic and conservational values
of the specimens they handle and curate.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15708/1/Winter%20School%20on%20Recent%20Development%20in%20Taxonomic%20Techniques%20of%20Marine%20Fishes%20for%20Conservation%20and%20Sustainable%20Fisheries%20Management_2022_Aju%20K%20Raju.pdf
Raju, Aju K and Sreekumar, K M (2022) Museum Techniques in Preservation. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 99-103.