Positions at Museum of Cultural History

Project manager
Conservator
Postdoctoral fellow
Conservation research project Saving Oseberg
Museum of Cultural History
University of Oslo, Norway

The museum houses the extensive and highly valued Oseberg collection
which represents one of the most comprehensive collections of Viking
Age wooden objects in the world.  Many of these wooden artefacts are
severely threatened by a slow but on-going deterioration process
caused by a conservation treatment (alum treatment) applied one
hundred years ago.  In addition, the artefacts are restored to such
a degree, that undoing or removing these would irreversibly damage
the artefacts.  In order to develop a preservation strategy for
these highly complex and degraded artefacts, the museum launched the
research project Saving Oseberg phase I, which ends December 31,
2016.

In the second phase of Saving Oseberg, the activities will be
organized in two research groups.  The first group will apply and
compare different impregnation methods, addressing the three main
problems: high acidity, presence of harmful metal ions and
consolidation of the fragile alum treated wood.  This work will
include the development of a testing protocol, chemical analyses
before- and after-treatment and studies of behaviour of the
impregnation agents in the highly degraded archaeological wood.

The second group will work with chemical variation and improvement
of the materials for consolidation, neutralization and inactivation
of metal ions.

The two groups will work in close cooperation with each other, with
relevant projects associated with the development of new museum
facilities for the Oseberg collection and not least in a national
and international network of research institutions.

For more information see:

    <URL:http://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/saving-oseberg/>

Job postings, contact information and information on how to apply
can be found at

    <URL:http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1654375/71569?iso=no>

    <URL:http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1654771/71569?iso=no>

    <URL:http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1654283/71569?iso=no>

Closing date for all three positions: August 15, 2016

Torunn Klokkernes
Conservator PhD
Head of Department for Collection Management
Museum of Cultural History
University of Oslo
PO Box 6762
St. Olavs Plass
NO-0130 Oslo
Norway
+47 22859562
+47 40102431


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