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The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation’s (FAIC) Collaborative Workshops in Photograph Conservation Committee is seeking a new committee member. The Committee is funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endowment, and charged with the planning of programs related to photograph conservation and preservation.
GCI is seeking a Head for our Collections Department—one of the three principal programmatic areas at the GCI—which focuses on the conservation of cultural objects and collections housed in all sizes and types of museums, libraries and archives, historic buildings and sites, and other repositories worldwide.
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By Saara Peisa
An old Mercedes is standing in the back of a car park. You could just pass by, but something draws your attention; perhaps it is the magazine on the dashboard or something inside packed in bubble wrap. You look in and are startled – some guys are sleeping in there! Are they real? I can’t believe it, they look so real! After the initial shock, you start to look for the story. Why are they sleeping in a car? Where are they going?
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Call for Posters
The ICOM-CC Metals Working Group, The National Museum of Finland and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland, are pleased to announce Metal 2022, the 10th Interim Meeting of the Metals Working Group.
The conference will be held at Suomenlinna Fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at the entrance to Helsinki's harbour. This will be the first time that the Metals Working Group Interim Meeting takes place in the Nordic Countries.
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By Thomas Roby
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The Photograph Preservation Initiatives team is collecting information on photograph preservation projects throughout the world to assist us as we write a monograph titled, Significance, Use, and Conservation of Photograph and Image Collections, to be published in the Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology. In these survey questions, we are broadly defining photograph preservation projects to include photograph conservation and rehousing, emergency response, education and outreach, research, and digital image collection initiatives.
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By Dr. Ingrid Stelzner
Wood is one of the key materials in archaeological research. Besides the shape of the object, the wooden structure provides archaeological information. In our recently started project CuTAWAY (Conservation and wood analyses), computed tomography (CT) is used to analyse the structure of conserved archaeological wood non-destructively. The project aims to analyse the wood anatomy for dendrochronology of finds as well as the evaluation of the most common conservation methods.
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*REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED*
IIC was proud that the 6th edition of the Student and Emerging Conservators Conference followed the steps of our previous editions and took place in its due biennial date in Autumn of 2021. The Conference was FREE for IIC Student and Early Career members to attend.
You can still explore the Faces of Conservation conference website
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By Franko Ćorić, PhD
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Art History
In 2020 central Croatia was struck by about a dozen earthquakes around and above magnitude 5 on the Richter scale, and at the time this article was written, there had already been over two thousand aftershocks of smaller or greater intensity.
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In the catastrophic earthquake that hit the city of Petrinja and its surroundings on December 28 and 29 in 2020, the building of the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb, the location department in Petrinja, was among the severely damaged objects. The library of the Petrinja Teacher Training College was founded in the 1870s and annexed to the Faculty of Teacher Education in 2007. Today, the library has a fund of approximately 28,000 volumes, including 400 protected cultural property items.
