The Open Palace Programme is now open for applications for Summer 2017. It is a 20 day programme in the UK that offers you the chance to:


  • Step behind the scenes at some of the most significant palaces and mansions in the UK including Hampton Court, Kensington Palace and the Tower of London  

  • Learn from the palace professionals how to conserve, present and interpret sites and collections

  • Take part in hands on activities tackling real challenges alongside the experts

  • Immerse yourself in history where it happened

  • Handle fascinating historical artefacts and records

  • Gain invaluable experience and contacts for your resume

  • Benefit from bespoke careers advice

  • Visit and stay in some of the most delightful historic parts of England including Bath,Brighton,London, Stowe, Windsor and Buckingham


These experiences provide a richness and diversity with which few individual placements or internships can compare.

 

For further information please visit:


http://openpalace.co


Places are offered to candidates who send appropriate applications on a ‘first come,first served’ basis.


This year we are delighted to have achieved 4 Bursaries including a new Museums Australia and a new Museums Aotearoa sponsored bursary. Details of these bursaries are now available on our website.   












On 23 August 2016 at 18:30, Mina, Laura <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

The Textile Specialty Group (TSG) of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) is seeking abstracts for the 45th Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, IL, USA, May 28 through June 1, 2017.

 

The theme for this meeting will be “Treatments 2017: Innovation in Conservation and Collection Care.”

 

Colleagues are invited to submit abstracts that address the theme from many perspectives including (but not limited to):

·         Innovations in treatments, exhibition mounts, and storage systems

·         Reflections on historical practices that have evolved or been replaced

·         New technologies used in treatments, storage, analyses, or documentation

·         Collections care strategies that reduce the need for, or extent of, interventive treatments

·         Collaborative and cross-disciplinary work with conservators in other specializations, collections care colleagues, scientists, curators, and other allied professionals

·         Treatments that did not go as planned

·         Ethical considerations and decision making during treatments and collections care work

Abstracts relating to cleaning treatments are particularly encouraged:

·         Wet cleaning

·         Bleach treatments

·         Use of solvents

·         Poultices and other spot treatments

While abstracts that directly relate to the meeting theme are strongly encouraged, the selection committee also welcomes all scholarly submissions that broadly relate to textile conservation.

 

The deadline for submitting materials is Monday, September 12th, 2016 at 11:59EST

 

For more information about the Annual Meeting

http://www.conservation-us.org/annual-meeting

 

To see the full Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines

http://www.conservation-us.org/annual-meeting/call-for-submissions#.V6Oug_krKUk

 

Please contact TSG Program Chair Laura Mina if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

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Best wishes,

Laura

 

 

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Laura Mina
Associate Conservator
The Costume Institute
212 731 1047

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
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