| Organizers: |
Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Romania
National Museum Complex 'ASTRA', Training Center of Conservators
and Restorers (CePCoR)
CCI (Canadian Conservation Institute)
ICN (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage)
ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and
Restoration of Cultural Property)
In collaboration with the CMN (Canadian Museum of Nature) and the
National Museum of Belgrade, Diana Department for Preventive Conservation. |
| Summary: |
 
Application deadline: 29 January 2007
The purpose of this course is to focus on the risk management approach
to preventive conservation of collections. Risks can be not only
due to rare and catastrophic events, such as fire or flood, but
also to continual hazards, such as incorrect relative humidity or
lighting, and to everything in between. Risk management is an integrated
view of all expected damages and losses to collections and provides
a reliable tool to establish priorities and design strategies. The
course will review the risk concept in general, and its current
interpretations and applications in the field of cultural heritage.
It will examine the best available research for estimating all types
of risks. Participants will practice each stage of this approach
in teams, from the risk assessment of a real museum or archive collection,
to the development of options for risk mitigation. This course will
especially consider the concerns of institutions with limited resources.
It will emphasize risk communication and give participants various
opportunities to exercise this skill. |
