ABSTRACT
Founded in 1930, the Casa de Rui Barbosa Museum is considered to be the first historic house museum in Brazil established and managed by the public sector. The joint preservation of the historic structure and its collections has been guided by a preventive conservation plan for more than a decade. This process includes inspection, diagnosis, monitoring and reviewing of preservation actions, in which the building, collection, gardens and systems are integrally linked. In this sense, formulating preservation policies must consider prioritize the mitigation of deterioration and damages to the building and the collection, at the same time ensure the enjoyment of the visiting public. A risk management process has been launched in order to improve the identification of risks that threaten the joint preservation of buildings and artifacts and in developing strategies for mitigating those risks. The methodology adopted was the ABC Method, this article presents the processo, results and discuss the limits of such a methodology to foster preventive conservation in historic house museums.
