MATCONS Conference

You are cordially invited to attend the MATCONS 2011, 2nd
International Conference Matter and Materials in/for Cultural
Heritage, which will be held in Craiova, Romania, August 24-28, 2011

MATCONS is the biennial conference of conservators and restorers
community in Romania. Since 2009 MATCONS has taken an international
perspective and focused on the scientific research and its direct
application to the treatment and analysis of cultural heritage as
well as on the practical problems of intervention facing
conservators and restorers and innovative possibilities for the
conservation practice. The main objective of MATCONS is to bring
together conservators, restorers, conservation scientists, chemists,
physicians, engineers, teachers, in few words all those specialists
that should collaborate to improve conservation, preservation and
enhancement of our cultural heritage.

Organisers:

    Dolj County Council, Romania
    Oltenia Museum, Craiova, Romania
    ICOM Romania
    University of Craiova, Romania

MATCONS 2011 features plenary sessions, parallel sessions, poster
sessions,  short training modules on non-destructive and
micro-destructive physical-chemical techniques, a round table on
education and training issues, the National Exhibition of
Restoration, commercial exhibits, and the award of prizes for the
best MSc/PhD theses on conservation science topics.

Main Conference topics are:

    Matter and Materials, Techniques and Technologies for
    Conservation and Restoration

    Interdisciplinarity and Networking for Improving our Heritage

    Preservation - Investigation, Diagnosis and Monitoring of
    Movable Heritage

All Presenters can submit written papers. A selection of scientific
papers will be published in a special issue of e-Preservation
Science. All papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings
(postprint).

Social events include visits to the Ethnographic Section of Oltenia
Museum as well as to historical churches in Craiova, a Piano and
Opera Arias Concert and a post-conference trip to UNESCO and
cultural sites in Oltenia.

Read more about MATCONS 2011 at

    http://www.forummuzeulolteniei.ro

Contact: matcons2011<-a t->yahoo< . >com

Looking forward to welcome you in Craiova this August,

Simona Violeta Gheorghe
Senior conservator
Oltenia Museum - Conservation Department


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