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I hope this post can be a place for more discussion about the 3rd IIC Roundtable ‘The plus/minus dilemma, the way forward in environmental guidelines’ part of the dialogues for the new century series. The Roundtable will be available for your viewing on the ArtBabble webpage of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Referenced throughout [...]

This is the first time the IIC Roundtable has been at the  American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic works (AIC) annual meeting.  It is fitting seeing that both organizations are researching  green solutions for conservation challenges. This morning there was a lecture during the General Session by Patricia Silence from Colonial Williamsburg [...]

Welcome to the IIC’s discussion blog for the 3rd Roundtable ”The Plus/Minus Dilemma: The Way Forward in Environmental Guidelines’ being held in conjunction with programs at the American Institute for Conservation’s (AIC) 38th Annual Meeting, Conservation Contiuum: examining the past, envisioning the future, in Milwaukee, WI.  My name is Amber Kerr-Allison and I am a Paintings Conservator and Kress Fellow at the Smithsonian American [...]

IIC has joined the international protest at the proposed relocation of the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF). A copy of the letter of protest, sent to a number of senior conservation and heritage figures in France follows: Monsieur Philippe BELAVAL Directeur Général des Patrimoines Ministère de la Culture & [...]

A 5th-century BC burial mound near the Persian Royal city Celaenae  – today Dinar, Afyonkarahisar province – was looted in 1969, with the best preserved colourfully painted wooden beams removed and smuggled out of Turkey. Six years ago, parts of the looted painted beams were rediscovered in a museum in Munich. A project was commenced [...]

The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) relaxed its environmental control in February. The IMA will allow the range of its exhibition gallery’s temperature and relative humidity to fluctuate by a few degrees on either side of the internationally accepted standard. The Director and Chief Executive of IMA, Maxwell Anderson, wrote about the development of the [...]

IIC is delighted to announce the availability of a wide range of financial support packages to assist attendance at the eagerly awaited IIC 2010 Congress in Istanbul in September this year. As in previous years, IIC is pleased to be working with the Getty Foundation and be able to offer a limited number of grants [...]