Every year AICCM National Council has a planning meeting to check we are on track with our strategic plan and decide our focus for the year ahead. Like last year, in 2021 we held our ‘face-to-face’ meeting over Zoom in a series of meetings spread out over a fortnight. (It seemed the safest bet back in January when travel interstate was still a much more uncertain prospect.) We had many excellent conversations and I’d like to thank everyone who put aside time in their day to contribute [...]
We all know someone amazing in conservation—now is your chance to celebrate that person’s talents and contributions by nominating them for an award [...]
In April, the book team at State Library Victoria tuned into the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18 conference held online by the University of Copenhagen. The seminar presented a range of topics by many international speakers who showcased their work with early printed book and manuscript collections from around the world [...]
My name is Rynno Gabriel Luis Torres Garde; Gab, for short. I am a first-year student in the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation Program at the University of Melbourne. I am currently working at Museum of Brisbane, and have worked and volunteered with six cultural institutions across the Brisbane area in various collections and curatorial roles [...]
The AICCM Preventive SIG’s online forum 10 AGENTS OVER 10 MONTHS is well under way! See the full program and save the dates for our monthly meet-ups with live Q&A sessions, so you can get involved in the discussion [...]
Plastics in Peril: Focus on Conservation of Polymeric Materials in Cultural Heritage was a free online conference held on 16–19 November 2020. Bringing together conservators, scientists, collection managers, and researchers, the conference merged two events scheduled for earlier in 2020 that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic: a conference in Edinburgh organised by the University of Cambridge Museums, and a workshop organised by Leibniz Association of Research Museums [...]
It’s probably the common drawcard, which is that conservation sits in a confluence of a few different disciplines: history, art, science and craft. Craft and the practicality of the job were probably the most magnetic of these for me (I have a background in pattern drafting and garment construction). Formally, I came to conservation through the master’s program at the Grimwade Centre following my vocational training and a Bachelor of Arts [...]
We would like to acknowledge the partnerships and financial assistance provided by the following businesses, which have readily embraced the concept of our 10 Agents over 10 Months online forum [...]