You’ve monitored the environment, now what?
University College London
29 October 2008
This seminar offers practical solutions to the problems of managing, presenting and interpreting relative humidity and temperature data monitored for the care of collections in museum, gallery, library, archive and historic house environments.
Preventive Conservation Workshop: tools and techniques for best practice
In collaboration with Horniman Museum, London
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A training centre in Venice for all aspects of heritage conservation.
Go to their website to find out what courses are available
http://www.centroeuropeomestieri.com/inglese/index.html
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Tutor: Brigid Gallagher code X9268
Learn techniques to excavate and lift fragile objects from archaeological sites, understand why materials decay in different ways in different burial environments, and how to best look after your objects once they are out of the ground. Practical sessions will be a big focus of this course.
Credits: 18
Length: 4 sessions
Time: Monday [...]
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The Conservation Studies course provides students with the necessary skills and knowledge to enable them to gain employment in an institution such as a museum, or in a private-sector workshop, and gives a firm basis upon which to build a future career in conservation or related areas. Many past students now hold posts in leading [...]
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CONSERVATION OF SWAHILI-STYLE STONE HOUSE LAMU WORLD HERITAGE SITE, KENYA
On Lamu Island, just off the coast of Kenya, a foray into the past is made possible by present-day planning decisions. Traveling the streets on foot or by donkey (no cars are allowed) or sailing the waters in a dhow, you’ll discover a culture that is [...]
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Centre of training for the rehabilitation of architectural heritage
Today, the rehabilitation of old buildings is a subject which comes into play across entire town and village centres. This concept of the traditional built environment is referred to as architectural heritage. This is precisely the area of intervention of the Ecole d’Avignon which specializes in the conservation [...]
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At the end of Long Island Sound, on the rolling wooded land that ended in marshes at the edge of the water lived the Siwanoy Indians (band of the Lenape) until 1653. In this year, a nearly 50,000-acre tract of land was purchased, of which 9,000 acres went to form the estate of Connecticut physician, [...]
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The York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship is offering in 2008 bursaries to a total value of £10,000 to assist the training of craftsmen and conservators.
This includes a bursary of £2000 to support the training of craftsmen funded by the York Company of Merchant Taylors, £1000 from the Provincial Grand Lodge of the Freemasons, and [...]
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Through the F. E. Cleary Heritage Fund (commonly known as The Cleary Fund), The Georgian Group gives small grants each year towards the repair and restoration of Georgian buildings and monuments in the United Kingdom.
This adds a highly practical and positive dimension to the Group’s conservation work; in many instances, even though the amount of [...]
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The “Association pour la Participation et l’Action Régionale” (APARE) - an association for regional participation and action - is a popular educational youth organization certified by the French ministry for youth and sport and the ministry for regional development and the environment.
Objectives
- To restore architectural heritage which may be protected as historic monuments, such as: [...]
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