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ANNOUNCEMENT
3rd International Meeting of Applied Technologies to Museology,
Conservation and Restoration - EITEC
The Department of Heritage Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, the Welding and Quality Institute and the companies Sistemas do Futuro (Multimedia, Gestão e Arte, Lda.) and Conservar-Inovar (Conservação e Restauro de Bens Patrimoniais, Lda.) are promoting the 3rd edition of EITEC – Encontro Internacional de Tecnologias Aplicadas à Museologia, Conservação e Restauro (International Meeting of Applied Technologies to Museology, Conservation and Restoration). This 3rd edition will take place at the Almeida Garret Library in Porto, Portugal, on October 23th-24th. During the two days, the participants will be able to attend presentations of invited speakers from Portugal and foreign countries. The program includes Portuguese speakers such as António Portugal from University of Coimbra who will present a case study of fungi in historical documents and José Nero from Instituto Superior Técnico who will discuss the conservation and rehabilitation of built heritage, among others. Among the foreign participants, Hans-Christoph von Imhoff will discuss the evolution of conservation-restoration field since Second World War, Javier Espadas Bardón from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation will speak about Museums and the Internet, and Piero Baglioni from the University of Florence will talk about nanomagnetic gels. The program and further information can be found at:
AWARD
Museum of Science, Coimbra, Portugal The Museum of Science of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) was awarded the Luigi Micheletti Prize by the European Museum Forum for the most promising technical or industrial museum. The announcement took place in May 17th at the presentation ceremony of the 2008 European Museum of the Year Award. According to the press-release, among other factors, the Museum of Science impressed by the "sensitively restored and designed neoclassical Laboratorio Chimico". The interactive Museum of Science houses the scientific instrument collections of the University of Coimbra. The e_conservation magazine is publishing in this same number an article about the conservation intervention of the Laboratorio Chimico, performed by the Atelier Samthiago conservation enterprise. Few days ago the museum launched a new project – "Digital Museum" – which makes available online a part of the museum collection. This is the biggest database of scientific instruments at national level. The database presently counts over 19,000 pieces but the museum announced to make available online in the future all the collection which counts up to 250,000 pieces.
Visit the University of Coimbra’s Museum of Science at:
Contacts: Museum of Science Largo Marquês de Pombal, 3000-272 Coimbra E-mail: geral@museudaciencia.pt Schedule: From Tuesday do Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm PUBLICATION Mural Painting in the North of Moldavia.
Aesthetic Modification and Restoration
Author: Oliviu Boldura
Publisher: Accent Print
Year: 2008
Pages: 450 ISBN: 978-973-1772-12-7 Language: Romanian / English Price: disseminated free of charge,limited edition A new book dedicated to Romanian mural paintings conservation has been recently published. Titled "Mural Painting in the North of Moldavia. Aesthetic Modification and Restoration" the book synthetises an experience of more than 35 years of conservation practice of Dr. Oliviu Boldura, conservator and professor at the Department of Conservation-Restoration of Works of Art, Faculty of History and Theory of Art, within the National University of Arts in Bucharest. The launching of the book took place on 27th June 2008, at the History Museum from Bucovina Museological Complex in Suceava. This book is the result of the author's PhD thesis, defended last year and awarded magna cum laude, and focuses on the conservation and research of the most representative monuments and mural ensembles from the north of Moldavia, precisely from Suceava County. Most of these monuments are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List: Voronet, Sucevita, Moldovita, Arbore, Probota, Balinesti, St. George of the Monastery St. John the New in Suceava and the exterior painting from Patrauti.The conservation of each of these monuments took several years of continuous work followed by laborious research and documentation. Starting from these numerous case studies, the thesis establishes the causes of aesthetic modifications occurred in the mural paintings ensembles. Major importance is given to the interdisciplinary research, as the only way to establish a correct diagnosis and the premises of an intervention methodology adequate to each particular case. The book has the remarkable quality of addressing at the same time a public of various levels, describing in a fascinating way the encountered situations and illustrating them by a wide visual discourse using photographs taken during these 35 years. The reader of this book will be the restorer in his training process, who will find within its pages, through case studies or intervention proposals, the answers to his questions, but also the experienced conservator who may find similar solutions to the problems he is concerned. Nevertheless, the book is a worthwhile read for all those involved or interested in the conservation of cultural heritage. The book, edited by the conservator Anca Dina, was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Cults from Romania, as part of the collection "Bucovina Research, Conservation and Restoration Centre". ANNOUNCEMENT ECPA Closure The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) has recently announced, on its Inkcorrosion-L mailing list, the end of its activity. ECPA is a non-profit foundation created in 1994 to promote the preservation of documentary records in European archives and libraries and to facilitate access to this heritage. ECPA was housed since its beginning by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences which is now under reorganization. This has led ECPA to reconsider itself and, due to the "profound changes in the field over the past decade, it was concluded that the new environment requires its own new networks, and restructuring the ECPA to meet these needs was not the best option." During its existence, ECPA has published several documents, promoted training courses, conferences and research projects. Among these last ones, the most relevant are: European Visual Archive (EVA), from 1991 to 2001, which aimed to develop the access to photographic collections; SEPIA project (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access), from 1999 to 2004, dedicated to the preservation of photographic collections; and, since 2004, TAPE project (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe), which involved audiovisual collections, sound and moving images. The projects are available from the ECPA website, which will continue to work for some time. The four ECPA mailing lists - EPIC-LST, Inkcorrosion-L, SEPIA-LST, and TAPE will close in July, however, all the website resources have been transferred to several other organisations. ECPA Website: www.knaw.nl/ecpa The Ink Corrosion Website: www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink Contact: ecpa@bureau.knaw.nl About the news section
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