The DMNS has had a variety of live animals on site for exhibits and events, and then of course service animals. In general our policies focus on the food, media, and maybe fur/feathers/debris associated with the animals, as the animals themselves are usually quite clean and only bring in at worst minor incidentals. The food or media for the animals is of larger concern, and then cleaning up anything they’ve shed. Directions and transparency regarding secure storage of food, cleaning up of food, monitoring storage areas, the media must be sterilized, live plants must have had a treatment, for examples.
NICOLE NEU-YAGLE Asst Collections Manager Department of Earth Sciences [cid:image001.png@01D97926.9F6E3BA0] nicole.neu-ya...@dmns.org<mailto:nicole.neu-ya...@dmns.org> Work 303.370.8320 2001 Colorado Blvd. Denver, CO 80205 www.dmns.org<http://www.dmns.org/> From: 'Murphy, Emily' via MuseumPests <pestlist@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2023 3:31 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [PestList] Live Animals In Museum Spaces I know the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA did an art installation involving 70 zebra finches back in 2014. You could contact them and see what their precautions were! Emily A. Murphy, Ph.D. Curator Salem Maritime National Historic Site Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site 160 Derby Street Salem, MA 01970 Cell: 781-248-6424 "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed." --Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852) ________________________________ From: pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com> <pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com>> on behalf of Madeline Corona <mcor...@getty.edu<mailto:mcor...@getty.edu>> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2023 5:27 PM To: pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com> <pestlist@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist@googlegroups.com>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [PestList] Live Animals In Museum Spaces This email has been received from outside of DOI - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding. Hi all, Our programming team is bringing a group of birds of prey onsite for a family festival event and have requested to use an air-conditioned space indoors to stage the birds (this will happen during the hottest part of the summer). I know that birds are carriers of mites, ticks etc., and I think we have identified a space that is isolated enough that this should be fine if we put down some tarps and do a deep cleaning afterward, but I was wondering if anyone else has had to deal with live animals onsite and if there are any pest-specific precautions that you took? Thank you in advance!! Madeline Madeline Corona (she/her) Associate Conservator, Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation Getty Museum T (310) 440 7261 | getty.edu<http://getty.edu/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/DM5SPR01MB0355E2D567C8FFC12BA42E42A86A9%40DM5SPR01MB0355.namprd05.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/DM5SPR01MB0355E2D567C8FFC12BA42E42A86A9%40DM5SPR01MB0355.namprd05.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SA0PR09MB66030D53DA78D29708BECD05E76A9%40SA0PR09MB6603.namprd09.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SA0PR09MB66030D53DA78D29708BECD05E76A9%40SA0PR09MB6603.namprd09.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/SN7PR08MB8496ABA6C0685A41473C12D4B36A9%40SN7PR08MB8496.namprd08.prod.outlook.com.
