Workshop on conservation of ethnographic collections

CAC Training Workshop
Critical Issues in the Conservation of Ethnographic Collections

The 1998 Training Workshop will be held in Whitehorse on May 30-31,
1998, directly after the CAC conference and will familiarize
conservators in all fields with sensitivities inherent in Native
cultural property. The workshop will facilitate a frank and open
discussion of values which have an impact upon the provision of
conservation services toward Native cultural property whether in the
community or institutional setting.

Native museum professionals working on behalf of their own
communities will comment upon their dealings with institutions
within the museum community. Conservators from Canadian Institutions
and abroad will describe working with indigenous communities and/or
ethnic minorities whose material culture forms an important part of
their institutional collections. Specialists in the field of
alternative dispute resolution will offer strategies for mediation
in situations of cross-cultural conflict.

For more information, please contact

    John Moses
    CAC Workshop Coordinator
    Canadian Ethnology Service
    Canadian Museum of Civilization
    PO Box 3100, Station B, Hull
    Quebec, Canada J8X 4H2
    john. moses<-a t->civilization< . >ca
    819-776-8441
    Fax: 819-776-8300

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