Monuments Men Inside the Mines - Archives of American Art Blog it's fair to wonder why so many mines were used as repositories. They were ideal for storing art for various reasons. At depths of up to 800 meters underground, the mines provided shelter from bombing; they were sprawling networks of tunnels capable of storing the large caches of artwork; and their interiors provided stable conditions safe from the vicissitudes of weather above ground. The inside of the mines was cool, dark and dry. According to an Archives of American Art oral history interview with Monuments Man and conservator George Stout<http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-george-leslie-stout-13145>, who supervised the recovery of art from Merkers and Ransbach repositories, the mines were relatively dry with a low average relative humidity of 40%. http://bit.ly/1gn0Wnf Source: http://blog.aaa.si.edu/2014/03/monuments-men-inside-the-mines.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1gn0Wnf+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
