Seminar on preventive conservation and history of textiles

Seminar and Workshop for professional conservators, archaeologists,
historians, students, collectors and others responsible for textile
collections

Hosted by the Museum of Modern Ceramics, Melidoni 4-6 Kerameikos,
Athens-Greece
Friday to Sunday 6-7, November 2010

Organised by:
Time Heritage (Technology Information Management Education)
<URL:http://www.timeheritage.gr>

This seminar develops awareness among non-specialists and
professionals, underlines the current preventive conservation
policy, proposes documentation methods, deals with indoor
environmental conditions, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), pest
control and freezing methods for treating infected objects, methods
of storage and the display of two- and three- dimensional textiles
based on modern museological ethics. The history background and
typology of Orthodox ecclesiastical, archaeological and
ethnographical textiles will be also presented.

Speaker:

    Dr. Christos Karydis
    Postdoctoral researcher in Previous Conservation and History
    Ormilya Art Diagnosis Centre and Getty Institute
    Visiting Lecturer Aristotle University.

Talks and discussions will be given in Greek.

R.S.P.V. by email to

    Dr. Afroditi Kamara
    info<-at->timeheritage<.>gr


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