Preventive conservation

International course on reducing risks to collections

In the last Biennium, ICCROM and the Canadian Conservation Institute formalized collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage to design, test and disseminate a risk-based decision method that will enable smaller museums to define their preservation priorities.

With these partners, ICCROM is now offering every two years an international course on this topic. The course venue rotated from Rome to Ottawa and in 2007 to Sibiu, Romania. In 2009, a venue outside of Europe will be identified. The 2009 course will include case studies of collections in diverse contexts (museum, historic house, archaeological sites) and merge risk assessment of movable and immovable heritage.

updated on: 23 November, 2007