Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies

New Web Journal for Conservation Student Research

The "Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies,"  under the
auspices of the Department of Conservation and Museum Studies,
Institute of Archaeology, University College London has now
published issue number one at:

    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/conservation/jcms/

This journal was created to serve as an academic World Wide Web
publication, disseminating conservation information to the global
conservation community. The papers and articles found in the Journal
represent the work of the international body of conservation and
museum studies students. The Journal is run by an editorial board of
faculty and students at the Institute of Archaeology, University
College London.

The articles in issue one include:

    The Identification and Treatment of a Unique Cache of Organic
    Artefacts from Menorca's Bronze Age

    Our Environment Ruined? Environmental Control Reconsidered as a
    Strategy for Conservation

    The People's Show: A Critical Analysis

    Is Collection Management an 'Art' or a 'Science'? (Discussed
    with Reference to Recent Standards Setting Initiatives in the
    U.K.)

    Second Postgraduate Conservation Research Seminar Abstracts
    Science Museum, London, United Kingdom, 8-9 February 1996

For more info:

    Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
    Institute of Archaeology
    University College London
    31-34 Gordon Square
    London WC1H 0PY
    United Kingdom
    jcms [at] ucl__ac__uk

Alan James Hogg

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