Conference on impact of location on conservation treatments

SSCR Conference
Site Effects:  The Impact of Location on Conservation Treatments
5th & 6th May 1998
West Park Centre, University of Dundee

Where objects are site specific (e.g. standing stones, buildings,
building features or fittings) the treatment of these objects often
has to be adapted to allow for the effects of location.  In many
cases, conservators have to work with other professionals, e.g.
curators, architects, historians, archaeologists, engineers,
planners or designers, to achieve a satisfactory result.

The conference aims to explore the ways treatments are adapted and
the relationships with other professions and, from this, to increase
the understanding of the professional requirements of the different
people involved.  Papers examine these questions in general and
abstract ways, relating them to past, present and future
conservation projects.

Topics include:

    *   Fashions in stone conservation, 1870 to present day - Nic
        Boyes (Historic Scotland)

    *    The heavy machine shop of Thomas A Edison - Greg Byrne
        (National Parks Service, USA)

    *    The conservation and rehabilitation of the House of
        Cantaber in the Roman city of Conimbriga:  problems and
        resolutions - Antonio Cardoso (Portugal)

    *    Bring conservation to the mountain, not the mountain to the
        conservator: the care of rock art sites in the USA - J.
        Claire Dean (Dean & Associates Conservation Services, USA)

    *    The primacy of context:  conservation of decorative arts
        from English Heritage sites - Laura Drysdale and Amber Rowe
        (English Heritage)

    *    The conservation of the Wardlaw mausoleum - Christa
        Gerdwilker (Historic Scotland Intern, Scottish Lime Centre)

    *    Treatment of a labyrinth: addressing decay and losses in a
        large outdoor wood sculpture located in a public park - Hugh
        Glover (Williamstown Art Conservation Centre, USA)

    *    The integrity of the fake - Ian Gow (Royal Commission on
        Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)

    *    Attitudes to architecture conservation - Ove Hidemark
        (Architect for the Royal Palaces of Sweden)

    *    Double trouble, the conservator's many roles in
        architectural conservation - Susan L Maltby (Objects
        Conservator, Canada)

    *    Conserve it?  Reproduce it? Or cover it in wood chip and
        paint it blue?  The treatment of wallpapers within the
        historic interior.  A discussion on the various options
        available, supported by case studies - Allyson McDermott
        (Conservator of Fine and Decorative Arts)

    *    Storage considerations for native arts - a joint project
        between Denver Art Museum and the Native American Community
        - Carl Patterson and Judy Greenfield (Denver Art Museum)

    *    The in situ conservation of the archbishop's mintworkshop,
        Trondheim, Norway - Elizabeth E Peacock and Gordon
        Turner-Walker (Norwegian University of Science and
        Technology)

    *    Conservation issues for American plated stained glass
        windows reinstalled in buildings - Julie L Sloan (McKernan
        Satterlee Associates, Inc, USA)

    *    Trials and tribulations of a conservation plan. Newhailes -
        Charles Strang (The National Trust for Scotland)

    *    Another house, another method:  variations in approach to
        the conservation of gilt leather wallhangings - Roy Thomson
        (The Leather Conservation Centre)

    *    A note on the performance of three buildings as museums in
        Northeast Brazil - Franciza Toledo and Clifford Price
        (Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

    *    Archaeological sites as current landscape elements in the
        Baltic States - Mara Urtane (Latvia University of
        Agriculture)

    *    Dosimetry of paintings:  chemical changes in test paintings
        as tools to assess the environmental stress in the museum
        environment - Oscar F van den Brink, Sophie Peulve and Jaap
        J Boon (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The
        Netherlands)

Further information and registration forms may be obtained from:

    Scottish Society for Conservation & Restoration
    The Glasite Meeting House
    33 Barony Street, Edinburgh EH3 6NX, Scotland
    +44 131-556 8417
    Fax: +44 131-557 5977
    admin<-a t->sscr< . >demon< . >co< . >uk

Margot M Wright
Marischal Museum, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen,
Broad Street, Aberdeen AB10 1YS, Scotland
+44 0-1244-274300 (Conservation Laboratory)
Fax: +44 1244-274301 (Museum and Answerphone)
Fax: +44 1244-645519

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