At the annual Face-to-Face meeting (this year held virtually), the AICCM National Council finalised the 2020–2025 Strategic Plan. This document has been a year in the making with much of the content originating from the Collections Future Workshop, which was hosted by Foresight Consultant Jose Ramos last year ...
The year 2020 has brought profound change. Not just the run-of the-mill incremental change of progress as new ideas, research and innovations ‘improve’ the way society functions year by year. Instead, it’s the once-in-a-lifetime, pull-back-the-curtain type of change that forces us to address issues and activities that have been sitting in our collective too-hard basket...
What do I mean by Zoom to the rescue? The best way to explain this is to give some background to how artefacts change underground and how excavation and preservation of historical archaeological artefacts proceed in Victoria...
It has been six years since we partnered with Maney Publishing—now Routledge, Taylor & Francis—to produce and grow our peer-reviewed journal. This partnership has reduced the cost of producing the journal, increased peer-review capacity and at the same time increased our readership beyond our members and profession...
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, conservators have made massive adjustments with many moving from a lab-based practice to a work-from-home model. AICCM Emerging Conservators SIG and Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M) teamed up in early May to combat lockdown, delivering a series of free webinars from our lounge-rooms to yours...
The Preventive Conservation SIG committee would like to share with the AICCM membership the results of the survey that was undertaken recently on the Agents of Change Preventive Conservation Conference in planning for 2021. Taking into consideration the survey results, the current situation in Victoria and the risks associated with a physical conference, the Preventive Conservation SIG has decided that it will develop an online/virtual conference for 2021...
We have definitely been going through some strange and interesting times this year, especially in Melbourne. Current students are still working their way through the Master’s program at the Grimwade Centre and we are grateful to the centre’s staff and to our current cohort of students supporting each other through their studies during this time...
As a newly qualified conservator I would definitely describe myself as still in the ‘getting started’ process at the moment! As for what attracted me, I’ve always loved history and found objects that connect us to the past to be very compelling...