Library of Congress Topics in Preservation Series (TOPS)

Topics in Preservation Series Lecture at the Library of Congress

Hermitage Photograph Conservation Initiative: A Model for
    Cross-Institutional Collaboration: A professional development
    initiative of the Foundation of the American Institute for
    Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works funded by The Andrew
    W. Mellon Foundation
Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building
Dining Room A, Sixth Floor
April 11, 2014
11 am--12:30 pm

Also accessible by live webcast.

The Hermitage Photograph Conservation Initiative was established in
2010 to help inaugurate the department of photograph conservation at
the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Administered
by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works, the initiative is funded through a
grant received from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Central to the
project is training in conservation, documentation, and cataloguing
practice.  This training has been conducted through an unprecedented
collaboration involving numerous institutions in the United States
and Europe, among them Harvard University and the Library of
Congress, working toward the ultimate goal of preserving the
Hermitage's outstanding collections that number in excess of 470,000
photographs.

Speakers:

    Paul Messier
    Photograph Conservator
    Paul Messier LLC

    Eric Pourchot
    Institutional Advancement Director
    Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of
    Historic and Artistic Works

    Brenda Bernier
    Head of Weissman Preservation Center and Paul M. and Harriet L
    Weissman Senior Photograph Conservator
    Harvard Library

    Andrew Robb
    Head, Special Format Conservation
    Conservation Division
    Library of Congress

    Tatiana Sayatina
    Head of the Scientific Conservation Laboratory of Photographic
    Materials
    Conservation Department
    State Hermitage Museum

For more information, including how to register for the webcast,
please visit:

    <URL:http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/messier/messier_hermitage.html>

Andrew Robb
Library of Congress


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