Provisional technical programme

Provisional session titles

  • Philosophy - introductory
  • Preventive Conservation - light and pests
  • Environment/sustainability/climate change
  • Conservation/ restoration - public involvement in the debate
  • Strategic management - risks, surveys
  • Transport - experience/best practice
  • Little or no access
  • Education
  • Access for conservators

Provisional List of Papers and Speakers (at February 2008)

Defining access: factors and variables Renata Peters, Devorah Romanek
Representation and intervention: The symbiotic relationship of conservation and value Joel Taylor and May Cassar
The benefits and risks of anoxic display Joyce H Townsend, Stephen Hackney, et al.
Optimum access at minimum risk - the dilemma of displaying Japanese woodblock prints Agnes W. Brokerhof, Fiona MacKinnon, Frank Ligterink,et al.
Between Conservation and Access - Implementation of Integrated Pest Management at the National Museum of Ethnology Naoko Sonoda and Shingo Hidaka
'Dangerous Liaisons' Valerie Blyth and Clair Battisson
Presentation in Original Contexts via Controlled Microclimates David Thickett
Optimising drying out strategies to reduce downtimes for actively used flood damaged historic buildings P.Biddulph, N.Blades, M. Cassar
ss Great Britain: conservation and access - synergy and cost Watkinson D, Tanner M and Turner R
Rescue Public Murals Will Shank, Debra Hess Norris
Revitalization of a 1940 WPA 240' free standing petrachrome mural Andrea Morse, Rosa Lowinger
Church communities and conservation/restoration of wall paintings in Denmark Isabelle Brajer
How does fragmentary art affect us? Thoughts on restoring 'cryptic' art Stephanie Fundel, Rainer Drewello, Sven Hoyer, Barbara Kügel
Conservation for presentation: a key solution for protecting monuments Roberto Nardi
Fireboat 'Alexander Grantham': an accessible artefact Shing-wai Chan, Evita Yeung, Jonathan Tse
Tyntesfield - Forever for Everyone Mary Greenacre
Unlimited access: safeguarding historic textiles on open display in public buildings Alison Lister
Access at any cost?-Does the demand for collections to be accessible diminish conservation standards in National Museums Sandra Smith
Conservation and Access: Exploring developments in the loan of paintings from Tate's Collection Susan Breen, Helen Brett, Rebecca Hellen
Prioritising access in the treatment of National Trust collections Katy Lithgow, Sarah Staniforth, Paul Etheridge
Applying risk and condition information to the management of dispersed collections at English Heritage Claire Fry, Amber Xavier-Rowe
An Evaluation and Preservation Project at the National Museum of Denmark - Management and Presentation Eva Salomonsen
The Collection Care and Access Project - balancing demands on collections Diane Gwilt
Planning work for current and long-term access at Library and Archives Canada Clark, Bonnie
Archive Conservation Embedded in the Contradictory Context of Digitisation and Access Juergen Vervoorst
Pre-Bracketed Exhibits, they really work Catherine Magee, Greta Hansen
Botanical Wonders: The Story of the Harvard Glass Flowers: Conservation and Exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass Stephen P. Koob, Scott Fulton, Susan Rossi-Wilcox
Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai. The transport and display of objects from St. Catherine's Monastery Tiarna Doherty and Bruce Metro
Access for Native People and the Public: Exhibits at the National Museum of the American Indian Jessica S. Johnson
Measurement and Analysis of Global Transportation Environment of a Packing Case Nobuyuki Kamba, Hiroshi Wada, Masahiko Tsukada,et al.
Risk evaluation during transportation of paintings on canvas Michal Lukomski, Lukasz Lasyk, et al.
Risk assessment during art lending and transportation in the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens Maria Papadimitriou, Elpida Vamvakari
Access denied Andrew Thorn
Preservation in Situ: The Future for Archaeological Conservators? Chris Caple
Conserving and interpreting the historic huts of Antarctica Julian Bickersteth, Fiona Tennant and Sarah Clayton
Can conservation accept, or even encourage, handling of objects? Elizabeth Pye
Close encounters: enabling handling of museum collections Irit Narkiss, Helena Tomlin
Science Revealed: the hidden story of objects Siobhan Watts, David Crombie and Annemarie LaPensée
Public Engagement with Conservation at the British Library Helen Shenton
Access to technical analysis: visualising the invisible Libby Sheldon
Conserving the Lesvos Petrified Forest Evangelia Kyriazi
The influence of access to the living artist on conservation of Allen Jones's seminal painted works from the 1960s Paul Gardener, Aviva Burnstock
Access for analysis Panagiota Manti and Henderson Jane
Stories from a building site – Westminster Abbey and its Retable Spike Bucklow

Posters

The list of over 40 poster topics and presenters will be here soon. On the Thursday morning there will be a dedicated poster session, during which poster presenters will be on hand to discuss their work with delegates.