Internships at Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest

Placements for conservation students in the Lesvos Petrified Forest
    Museum
Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest
Sigri, Lesvos
Greece

The Museum is offering up to five (5) placements for conservation
and restoration students in the period May-September 2008. The
students will work with the conservation and restoration team,
supervised by the head-conservator of the museum, Mrs. E. Kyriazi,
and the director of the Museum, Dr. N. Zouros. Their duties will
include conservation, restoration, photography and documentation of
the fossils, and their work is expected to be realized both within
the museum premises, as well as in the outdoor parks.

Candidates should be theoretically or practically experienced in
fossil or stone or glass conservation, they should be patient and
diligent, be able to work outdoors, have knowledge on computers and
photography and communicate in one of the following languages:
Greek, English, Italian or German.

The museum is offering bed and breakfast accommodation within its
premises.

The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest is located
in the picturesque village of Sigri, in the western edge of Lesvos
Island, the third biggest Greek island. It was founded in 1994,
aiming to study, research, appoint, preserve, conserve and protect
the Petrified Forest, which covers a large part of the western
peninsula of the island. The Petrified Forest was created 20 million
years ago, due to the intense volcanic activity in the area. Apart
from the museum, where mobile findings (trunks, roots, branches,
fruit, leaves etc) are kept, several outdoor parks have been
created, in the most important fossil-bearing locations.

For more information about the museum please refer to the museum
internet site <URL:http://www.lesvosmuseum.gr>, or contact
lesvospf<-a t->otenet< . >gr and evangelia_kyriazi<-a t->yahoo< . >gr

In order to acquire an application see

    <URL:http://www.lesvosmuseum.gr/
        site/home/ws/primary+menu/education/
        fitites-panepistimia.csp?loc=en_US

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    email. There should be no newline.

Students should send their applications accompanied by their
curriculum vitae to both following e-mail addresses:

    lesvospf<-a t->otenet< . >gr and
    Evangelia_Kyriazi<-a t->yahoo< . >gr

Evangelia Kyriazi
Head Conservator
Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest


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