Survey on conservation in Yorkshire

Strategies for Sustainability Survey 2015
Museum Development Yorkshire and the York Consortium for
Conservation and Craftsmanship: Conservation and Collections Care

Conservators:  Have you worked in Yorkshire within the last three
years?  Now is the time to make your voice heard. How is
conservation being provided and what might this mean for the
long-term care of collections in Yorkshire?

These are a couple of the questions that have lead to the new Museum
Development Yorkshire and the York Consortium for Conservation and
Craftsmanship partnership project to undertake a survey on the
current state of conservation and collections care across Yorkshire.
This study will take the form of two pilot surveys that will examine
the practice of conservation in museums, the current needs of the
sector and the conservation skills that are available in the region.
The first survey (January 2015) will be aimed at conservators either
employed in museum services or free-lance and the second (February
2015) will be directed towards museums and those within them who
make decisions about collections care and conservation.

We will be sending out invitations to complete a brief Survey Monkey
questionnaire early in the New Year and would like to encourage all
conservators who have undertaken work in Yorkshire (freelance or as
part of an institution) within the last three years to complete the
survey.

We hope that the survey will give us significant data and feed-back
to be able to advocate for the sustainable care of the region's
museum collections and to identify where additional support and
advice may be required.  The information supplied to us will be
dealt with on a confidential basis and your responses will assist us
in gaining an accurate understanding of the current situation for
conservators working within Yorkshire.  We hope to be able to
publish the findings in the spring of 2015.

Please look out for the invitations to complete the survey in your
inbox in early January 2015 (Conservators) and February 2015
(Museums).  We would really appreciate it if you could complete the
survey within three weeks.  A link to the survey will also be sent
out via Iconnect.

Thank you in advance for your co-operation with this project.  If
you are a conservator who is interested in directly receiving the
survey link in January, please email aschmiss<-at->gmail<.>com.  For
further information about the study, please contact Dieter Hopkin at
MDY or Alaina Schmisseur.


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