Conference on plastics

POPART consortium organizes an international conference
"Preservation of Plastic ARTefacts in museum collections"
The POPART project
Auditorium Colbert
2 rue de Vivienne
75001 Paris, France
7-9 March 2012

<URL:http://popart.mnhn.fr/>

Since their rapid development during the first half of the 20th
century, plastics have infiltrated every aspect of modern daily
life. Unfortunately, many plastics have a short lifetime and degrade
via irreversible chemical reactions that result in dramatic changes
in appearance and significance to museum artefacts. This symposium
aims to present knowledge gained from the European commission funded
project POPART over 4 years

The symposium will address the fields of identification, assessment
of degradation and care of plastics artefacts. A poster session will
be organised where new research, conservation treatments or case
studies can be presented by symposium participants.

The programme consists of plenary lectures during the mornings
(9 am -1 pm) and workshops or visits in the afternoons.

March 7, 2012

    Morning: History, collection assessment and issues

    Afternoon: Workshop on Cleaning, polymer identification,
    surveying collections, polymer analysis (Py GC-MS), visits

March 8, 2012

    Morning: Damage assessment for plastic artefacts

    Afternoon: Workshop on Cleaning, polymer identification,
    surveying collections, polymer analysis (Py GC-MS), visits

March 9, 2012

    Morning: Active conservation of plastic artefacts: cleaning,
    consolidation

    Afternoon: visits

Poster session during the 3 days. If you want to submit a poster,
please, send an abstract to Alban Fournier.

A model will be provided if your poster is selected.

Conference fees:

    Before Oct 31, 2011: 150 Euro (50 Euro for students)
    including a conference book

    After Oct 31, 2011:  200 Euro (150 Euro for students)
    including a conference book

    Workshops fees: 50 Euro

Language: English

We are anticipating a very high turn-out for this conference and
will be enforcing a "first come, first served" policy for
registration, so recommend that anyone interested in attending
registers as soon as possible in order to guarantee their seat.

This symposium is made possible by the EC funding, Grant agreement
212218 for the POPART project: Preservation of plastic artefacts in
museum collections It will be organised by the Centre de recherche
sur la conservation des collections (CRCC) in collaboration with the
CNRS and the INP.

The POPART project, devoted to the preservation of polymer artefacts
in museums, is funded by the European commission for 42 months from
October 2008 to March 2012. Twelve partners from 8 countries are
involved bringing a wide range of expertise. It includes the Centre
de recherche sur la conservation des collections and the Centre de
recherche et de restauration des musees de France both from France,
the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), the National Museum of Denmark
(Denmark), the Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" (Italy),
the Instituut Collectie Nederland (Netherlands), Polymer Institute,
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia), Arc-Nucleart (France),
SolMateS BV (Netherlands), Morana RTD (Slovenia), the Centre for
Sustainable Heritage UCL (UK) and the Getty Conservation Institute
(USA).

Alban Fournier
Secretaire general
Manager Projet POPART
Centre de recherche sur la conservation des collections
USR3224 CRCC
MNHN
36 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire
CP21
75005 Paris
France
+33 40 79 53 05
Fax: +33 40 79 53 12


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