- Date:
- Thursday, 1 January 1970
- Number:
- 133
ACT Division ACT Division has recently lost its Secretary (Kasi Albert) and Treasurer (Jane Wild). Thanks to them for their sterling work at getting our procedures and paperwork in order! Our new secretary is UC student Anna Kalloudis. Other committee members are: Danica Auld (UC), Hakim Rahim (UC), Karen Wilcox (AWM) Natalie Ison (NMA) and […]
2016 is shaping up to be an enormous year for SIG events. Our enthusiastic Convenors have hit the ground running and we currently have the following amazing professional development opportunities coming up: 7-8 April, Care and Conservation of Geological Materials with Dr Caroline Buttler at Melbourne Museum, VIC 26-27 April, Preservation of Functional Objects Workshop […]
Adele Barbara has generously volunteered to take on the development and editing of the AICCM Wiki, a long-planned project that will give AICCM members a place to share their extensive knowledge and capture some of that invaluable conservation know-how curently kept in people’s heads, notebooks and personal computers so that it isn’t lost as people […]
The AICCM Environmental Standards Committee is currently collecting case studies for the ICOM-CC Environmental Standards project that is being organised by Bill Wei. AICCM has offered its assistance, being well placed to provide a ‘southern hemisphere perspective’ on the international issue of environmental standards for loans. Case studies are required by the end of March […]
AICCM National Council meets once a year in real time. This year we met in February in Sydney and were hosted by Sheldon Teare at the Australian Museum. There were 17 of us in total—including the state presidents, the executive team, web editor, secretariat, publications officer and the events co-ordinator. The face to face meeting […]
The AICCM Bulletin volume 36.2 is now published online through Taylor & Francis. Hard copies have been delayed due to circumstances beyond AICCM or Taylor & Francis’ control but we hope to have available them for distribution soon. AICCM members can access the new version via the AICCM website member area here. Don’t forget to […]
There’s no place like home... Reflections on my IMAC award placement at The University of Birmingham
The IMAC award is an opportunity for one student from The University of Melbourne, Australia, to spend four weeks observing professionals working across the cultural collections, galleries, archives and museums of The University of Birmingham, UK. Interested students must submit and application for review and the short listed candidates are then required to give a […]
Objects of great historical, cultural and financial value are being looted from sites of conflict and sold to finance wars and regional conflicts. These so-called ‘blood antiquities’ are being sold in the great centres of antiquities trading in Europe and around the world, but are they making it as far as Australia? And what ethical […]