Technical Artefacts
Cleaning a model cannon
“Technical Artefacts” include arms, vehicles, machines
and implements of all kinds, and require special concepts and measures as well
as a customised infrastructure, since the combination of materials used in the
objects as well as their size and weight make maintenance difficult. In the
case of some of these objects, the museums are at pains not only to preserve
their material integrity but to keep them functioning as well.