Awards, competitions, and prizes

25 January. Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Direzione Generale per i BeniArchitettonici e Paesaggistici
Prize for architectural thesis: moving in the immovable
Deadline for application: 31 July

21 January. European Association of Archaeologists
The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2008
Deadline for application: 1 May

18 January. UNESCO Office of the Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific
2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation
Deadline for application: 31 March

Call for projects

22 January. UNESCO
Participation Programme in the activities of Member States for 2008-2009
Application deadline: 28 February

22 January. Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Les musées au service du développement
Application deadline: 15 March and 31 July

Conservation centre

1 February. Plart, Italy
New Plastic Conservation Centre in Italy
Plart – whose name derives from the combination of the terms “plastic” and “art” – is a new museum devoted to plastic materials.

Events

Calendar of Events compiled by ICCROM
Events this month

27 February. Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada
Symposium: Cultural heritage management in Latin America: the development of new organization strategies, 27 March
Application deadline: see website

27 February. Rathgen-Forschungslabor, Berlin, Germany
Hands-On Workshop on Non-Destructive Elemental Analysis, 7 - 8 April
Application deadline: see website

26 February. Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation - Association of Friends of the Costume Gallery of Florence
Costume Colloquium: A tribute to Janet Arnold, 6 - 9 November 2008, Florence, Italy
Early bird registration : 30 June

25 February. VSMM 2008
Call for papers - VSMM 2008: Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future, 20 - 26 October 2008, Limassol, Cyprus
Deadline for presentation of papers: 2 June

20 February. Abracor (Brazilian Association of Conservators and Restorers of Cultural Property ), Brasil
Call for papers - XIII Congress: Preservation of Cultural Heritage: ethics and social responsibility, 10 - 11 September
Deadline for presentation of papers: 31 March

12 February. Villa Médicis, Rome, France
Technical conference: Enamel on metals conservation by Agnès Gall Ortlik, 10 - 11 March
Application deadline: see website

29 January. ICOMOS 16th General Assembly
Call for abstracts: ICOMOS 2008 - International Forum of Young Researchers and Professionals in Cultural Heritage
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 1 March

29 January. World Association for the Protection of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage During Times of Armed Conflict (WATCH); et alii
Call for abstracts: Sixth International Conference On Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, Italy
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 27 February

29 January. Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC); et alii, Portugal
Call for abstracts: Historical Mortars Conference (HCM2008), 24-26 September 2008, Portugal
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 15 April

29 January. Museum of Science, Portugal
Call for abstracts: Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC2008), 16-21 September 2008, Portugal
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 15 May

24 January. ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) Annual Conference 2008
Call for abstracts: Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2 - 4 July 2008, United Kingdom
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 29 February

15 January. Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Workshop : Limp and semi-limp vellum binding, and paper case bindings, 3 – 14 November 2008
Tutor: Prof. Christopher CLARKSON, Oxford, United Kingdom
Application deadline: 28 February

14 January. Uludag University Mosaic Research Center, Faculty of Science-Literature, Archaeology Department and Association Internationale pour l'Etude de la Mosaique Antique (AIEMA)
11th International AIEMA Mosaic Symposium, Bursa, Turkey, 16-20 October 2009
Deadline for presentation of abstracts: 30 August

7 January. ICOM - Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC)
Diversity in Heritage Conservation -  Tradition, Innovation and Participation, New Delhi, India, 22-26 September 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 31 March

Grants, scholarships, internships

27 February. Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria
Internships: objects and textiles conservation
Application deadline: 1 May
Contact for objects: Christiane Jordan <christiane.jordan [at] ethno-museum__ac__at>
Contact for textiles: Elisabeth Tarawneh <elisabeth.tarawneh [at] ethno-museum__ac__at>

27 February. Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Paper Conservation
Application deadline: 15 March
Contact: Rachel Freeman <rfreeman [at] artic__edu>

13 February. Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, United States
Internship for research projects
Application deadline: 15 March

7 February. CHIRON: Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Networks
Marie-Curie fellowship: providing training opportunities to graduates wishing to start a research career in the field of IT applications to the research, conservation, and presentation of material Cultural Heritage.
Application deadline: see website

24 January. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, United States
2008 Fellowship
Application deadline: 3 March

21 January. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), United States
Fellowship: Paper Conservation
Application deadline: 1 March
Contact : Jessica Hoffman <jhoffman [at] ccaha__org>

21 January. Philadelphia Museum of Art, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Objects Conservation
Application deadline: 1 April
Contact: Christopher Wasson <cwasson [at] philamuseum__org>

7 January. ICOM - Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC)
Diversity in Heritage Conservation -  Tradition, Innovation and Participation, New Delhi, India, 22-26 September 2008
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is offering a limited number of bursaries to museum and/or conservation professionals from eligible countries to attend the 15th Triennial Conference of ICOM-CC. For further details see: www.icom-cc2008.org
Application deadline: 29 February
Contact: <secretariat [at] icom-cc__org>

19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Conservation Center (LACMA), United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: conservation of objects, textiles, paintings, paper and conservation science
Application deadline: 14 March
Contact: Mark Gilberg <mgilberg [at] lacma__org>

19 December. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Conservation Center (LACMA), United States
Summer internships: conservation of objects, textiles, paintings, paper and conservation science
Application deadline: 14 March
Contact: Mark Gilberg <mgilberg [at] lacma__org>

14 November. Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Photography Conservation
Application deadline: 1 March
Contact: Lee Ann Daffner <leeann_daffner (at) moma__org>

February. Smithsonian, United States
Conservation fellowships and internships
Application deadline: see website

February. The Getty, United States
Getty Conservation Grants
Application deadline: see website

Jobs

26 February. Thames Water, United Kingdom
Ecology and Heritage Advisor (Archaeologist)
Application deadline: 14 March

26 February. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, United States
Head Conservator
Application deadline: 18 April

26 February. Cleveland Museum of Art, United States
Chief Conservator and Chief Curator
Application deadline: visit website

26 February. Northwestern University, United States
Conservation Librarian
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Peter J. Devlin <library-personnel [at] northwestern__edu>

26 February. Leather Conservation Centre, United Kingdom
Book conservator
Application deadline: 21 March
Contact: Aline Angus <lcc [at] northampton__ac__uk>

26 February. Etherington Conservation Services, United States
Assistant paper conservator
Application deadline: see website
Contact: Michael Lee <mlee [at] thehfgroup__com>

26 February. Pole d'Archeologie Interdepartemental Rhenan (PAIR), France
Archaeozoologist
Application deadline: 10 June
Archaeological conservation: metal artefacts
Contac: Elise Alloin <elise.alloin [at] pair-archeologie__fr>

25 February. Heritage and Museum Services, Windsor, United Kingdom
Heritage Development Officer
Application deadline: 7 March

25 February. Yale University Art Gallery, United States
Object conservator
Application deadline: 21 March

11 February. A.R.S. Progetti: Conservation-restoration of the Cathedral of Saints Paul and Peter, Paramaribo, Suriname
Experts
Application deadline: 15 March 2007

21 January. University of Michigan Library, United States
Digital Preservation Librarian
Application deadline: 15 March
Contact: Library Human Resources <libhumres [at] umich__edu>

Publications

25 February. Ecomusée de l’Avesnois, France
Papers of the meeting: Glass conservation. Museum news and issues

18 February. The Cultural Heritage of Migrants
MUSEUM International N°233-4, UNESCO

18 February. Tell me about Living Heritage text by Marie Renault. Illustrations by Pascale Collange. UNESCO: Discovering the World series
Addressed to students of school or college age, this book deals with 'living heritage' which includes languages, tales, stories, music, dance, the performing arts, ceremonies, traditional medicine, weaving, pottery, etc. – in short, all the skills that are handed down from generation to generation.

6 February. Malaise dans les musées by Jean Clair
In addition to the fact that the text is extremely well written, this disappointment shows why Jean Clair cannot admit that art becomes a product. Structured in three parts, Disenchantment in Museums goes beyond criticizing the project of the Abou Dhabi Louvre. It's only the sign of a deeper disenchantment.

1 February. Trends in Rare Book & Documents Special Collections Management, Primary Research Group
This study profiles the efforts of more than a dozen American academic, public and special libraries to develop, manage and market their special rare book and document collections.

Training and development

27 February. Rathgen-Forschungslabor, Berlin, Germany
Hands-On Workshop on Non-Destructive Elemental Analysis, 7 - 8 April
Application deadline: see website

21 February. ILAM (Istituto Latinoamericano de Museos), Costa Rica
Museums: games and creativity, 7 March - 11 April
Application deadline: see website

11 February. UCLA, United States
Document Imaging and Document Management, 6 - 8 June
Application deadline: see website

8 February. The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc. (AICCM), Australia
New methods of cleaning paintings, 28 July - 1 August
New methods of cleaning painted surfaces of 3D objects, 4 - 8 August
Scholarship application deadline: see website

6 February. Sotheby's Institute of Art, United Kingdom
Master Degrees and postgraduate programmes MA in Photography
Scholarship application deadline: 30 March

5 February. International Academic Projects and the Corning Museum of Glass, United States
Short course: Conservation of glass, 19 - 23 May, United States
Application deadline: see website

5 February. Lesvos Petrified Forest Museum, Greece
Placements for conservation students in the Lesvos Petrified Forest Museum
The Museum is offering up to five (5) placements for conservation and restoration students in the period May-September 2008. The students will work with the conservation and restoration team. Their duties will include conservation, restoration, photography and documentation of the fossils, and their work is expected to be realized both within the museum premises, as well as in the outdoor parks.
Application deadline: see website

1 February. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Conservation at the RCA 2011 Onwards
The Royal College of Art will be suspending its intake of new students to the RCA/V&A Conservation programme from 2008-9.

24 January. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Course: Rehabilitación de Jardines y Parques Históricos, March, 2008
Application deadline: see website

24 January. Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in partnership with the Academy of Fine Art and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava and the Slovak National Library (SNL) in Martin, Slovak Republic
Course: Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs, phase 1, summer course: 21 July - 15 August, 2008; phase 2, distance learning: 1 September - 30 April, 2009
Application deadline: see website

21 January. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, United States
Summer Course: Pre-Program Archaeological Conservation Field School, 22 June - 26 July, 2008
Application deadline: see website

21 January. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), United States
Course: Archival preservation management, 17 - 18 April 2008
Application deadline: 3 April

21 January. International Academic Projects Ltd (IAP), United Kingdom
Course: Pigments and the polarizing microscope, 9-13 June 2008
Application deadline: see website

15 January. Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Workshop: Limp and semi-limp vellum binding, and paper case bindings, 3 – 14 November 2008
Tutor: Prof. Christopher Clarkson, Oxford, United Kingdom
Application deadline: 28 February

4 January. AIC online courses
- Description Coming Soon! Marketing for Conservation, 27 March – 23 April
- Estimating Conservation Projects, 1 May – 28 May
- Laboratory Safety for Conservation, 5 June – 2 July
- Mitigating Risk: Contracts and Insurance for Conservation, 10 July – 6 Aug
- Professional Responsibility in Conservation, 11 Sept – 8 Oct
- Records and Information Management for Conservation, 16 Oct – 12 Nov
Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

4 January. AIC workshops
- Mastering Inpainting, 5-9 May, Shepherdstown, WV
- Conservation of Plastics and Rubber, 15-18 May, New York, NY
- Digital Inkjet Printing for Textile Conservators, 13-15 June, Philadelphia, PA
- Conservation of Tracing Paper, two sessions: 4-5 Aug or 7-8 Aug, Williamstown, MA
- Adhesives for Conservation, 6-10 Oct, Omaha, NE Scholarships available
Application deadline: see website

14 November. International Academic Projects, United Kingdom
Distance learning course on chemistry for conservators, March - June 2008
Application deadline: see website

September. Archaia.eu
Training Seminars: Research Planning, Characterisation, Conservation and Management in Archaeological Sites, 15 - 17 May 2008
Application deadline: see website

5 December. Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria, Canada
Courses and workshops: 2008
Application deadline: see website

Websites, e-journals, e-publications

27 February. Lista Roja del Patrimonio
Hispania Nostra's list of endangered sites in Spain.

27 February. e_conservation magazine: February
The third number of e_conservation magazine is now online and can be downloaded for free.

21 February. Object ID website and publications
Object ID is an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities. The project has been developed through the collaboration of the museum community, police and customs agencies, the art trade, insurance industry, and valuers of art and antiques. It helps to combat art theft by encouraging use of the standard and by bringing together organisations around the world that can encourage its implementation.

21 February. Revista electrónica de patrimonio histórico (e-rph)
The above e-journal has been launched as a resource for cultural heritage preservation in Spain.

20 February. Digital cultural heritage
Online catalogue of digital cultural heritage listing digital collections and associated multimedia products (website, DVD, CDRoms...).

7 February. Moving theory into practice: digital imaging tutorial
This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. Also available in Spanish.

6 February. Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Manuals
Handbooks and best practices manuals for text-based digital collections compiled by David Mattison and available on the British Columbia Digital Library website.

6 February. California Digital Library (CDL)
The California Digital Library provides software, best practices, and other tools to facilitate digital library operations.

5 February. Skin processing technology in Eurasian reindeer cultures, Torunn Klokke, PhD thesis
Now available as a free e-publication at LMR Press, a comparative study in material science of Sàmi and Evenk methods - perspectives on deterioration and preservation of museum artefacts.

29 January. Statistiques culturelles en Europe
Downloadable publication on European cultural statistics carried out by the French Ministry of Culture.

updated on: 24 May, 2010