The tenth International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper started in Japan on 11 September. This three-week course is taking place in Tokyo, Mino and Kyoto and is organized by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo in collaboration with ICCROM.

The course is for professionals in charge of Japanese paper collections outside of Japan. It provides an insight into Japanese traditional paper-mounting techniques and materials, and the main guiding principles for the conservation of such collections in Japan.

Participants

• Barbara Biciocchi, Museum of Oriental Art of Venice, Venezia, Italy
• Kirstein Bresler, the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Maria Florencia Gear, FADAM (Argentine Federation of Museum Friends Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• So-young Jeong, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
• Fiona Kemp, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
• Bertrand Lavedrine, Center for the Conservation of Graphic Documents, Paris, France
• Fiona Mackinnon, National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
• Zohreh Moradkhani, Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies, Tehran, Iran
• Minah Song, Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, USA
• Anna Arietta Revithi, Hellenic Parliament Library, Athens, Greece

Member States represented: Argentina, Australia, Denmark, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, United States

updated on: 15 September, 2008