Syllabus/achievement requirements

Text books:

Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge.

Pye, E. 2001. Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, chapter 4 and 5.

Lecture 1: Why is cultural heritage preserved? The occurrence and development of heritage preservation.

Caple, C. 2000.’Chapter 2: ‘Reasons for preserving the past’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp.12-28.

Ahmad, Y. 2006. The scope and definitions of heritage From tangible to Intangible in International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 292–300 ICOM News, No.2, 2004, The definition of the museum

Lewis, G.D., 1992. ‘Collections, collectors and museums: a brief world survey’, i (Red) Thompson, J.M.A. Manual of Curatorship, London: Butterworth-Heinemann, pp.7-22.

Lumley, R. 1994. ‘The debate on heritage reviewed’, in (eds) Roger Miles and Lauro Zavala, Towards the Museum of the Future,. London and NewYork: Routledge, pp.15-25.

UNESCO, 1972. UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Total: ca 60 pages

Lecture 2: The nature and history of conservation.

Caple, C. 2000.’Chapter 3: ‘The nature of conservation’ and Chapter 4: ‘History of conservation’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp.29-45 and 46-58.

ICOM Committee for Conservation 1984. The Conservator-Restorer. A definition of the Profession. ca. 3 pages.

ENCoRE 2001. "Clarification of Conservation/Education at University Level or Recognised Equivalent" 3rd General Assembly, 19-22 juni 2001 Munich, Germany, ca. 4 pages.

Mu?oz Vi?as, S. 2005. ‘Chapter 1: What is Conservation’, i Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Amsterdam:Elsevier, pp. 1-25.

Keck, S. 1996. ‘Further Materials for a History of Conservation’, i (Red) Price, S. et.al. Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 281-287.

Larsen, R. 1998. ’The science of conservation – restoration’, in 25 years School of Conservation, the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, K?benhavn: Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, pp. 91-95.

Staniforth, S. 2000. "‘Conservation: Significance, Relevance and Sustainability’ Forbes Prize Lecture, The 18th International Congress of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), Melbourne, 10 October through Saturday 14 October 2000,

Charters

The Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, 1931

The Venice Charter, International charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites, 1964

The Burra Charter (The Australian ICOMOS Charter for the conservation if Places of Cultural Significance 1979.

The declaration of Dresden, Reconstruction of Monuments Destroyed by War

The Nara document of authenticity, 1994

The declaration of San Antonio, 1996

Total: 59 pages + charters

Lecture 3: The meaning of objects

Pye, E. 2001. ‘Chapter 4: The meaning of objects’, in Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, pp.57-76.

Baer, N. 1998. ’Does Conservation Have Value?’, in 25 years School of Conservation, the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, K?benhavn: Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, pp. 15-20.

Belk, R.W. 1994. ‘Collectors and collecting’, (ed) Susan M. Pearce, Interpreting objects and collections, London: Routledge, pp.317-326.

Jokilehto, J. 1985. ‘Authenticity in Restoration Principles and Practices’, i (Red) Steiner-Kiljunen, K. Konservering ig?r och idag. Nordiska konservatorf?rbundets X kongrss, Finland 10-15.6 1985, pp. 19-33.

Taylor, J and Cassar, M. 2008. ‘Representation and intervention: the symbiotic relationship of conservation and value’, in Conservation and Access, Contributions to the London Congress 15-19 September 2008, pp. 7-11.

Pearce, S. 1995. ‘Collecting as medium and message’, in (ed) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museum, Media and Message, London, Routledge, pp15-23.

Total: 73 pages

Lecture 4: Conservation ethics and theory

Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 5: Conservation Ethics, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 59-69.

E.C.C.O. professional guidelines and code of ethics 1-4.

ICOM, 2006, Code of Ethics

Schiessl, U. 1995. ‘The Development of the Profession and its ethical rules’, (ed) R?theli-Mariotti, et.al. The Restoration of Works of Art. Legal and Ethical Aspects, Geneva: Geneva Art Law Centre, pp. 203-229.

Sease, C. 1998 , "Codes of Ethic s for Conservation ", International Journal of Cultural Property, vol. 7 number 1,1998, p. 98-115.

Total: ca 60 pages

Lecture 5: Investigating and recording objects

Caple, C. 2000. ‘Chapter 6: Objects: Their recording and investigation’, i Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 70-89.

Caple, C. 2006. Chapter 1: ‘Investigating objects. Theories and approaches’, in Objects. Reluctant witnesses to the past, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-32.

Ianna, C. 2001. ‘Non-destructive techniques used in material conservation’, in 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Brisbane, Australia, 17-21 September

Getty Conservation Institute, Analytical equipment

Getty Conservation Institute, Collections research: Case studies: Antiquities: Analysis of red pigment on red shroud mummies,

Manuscripts: Scientific investigation of Martin de Murúa’s illustrated manuscripts,

Sculpture and decorative arts: The Stark Collection

Paintings, various projects

Higham, T. 1999. Radiocarbon WEB-info

J.Arneborg1, J.Heinemeier2, N. Lynnerup3, H.L.Nielsen2, N. Rud2 and ?.E. Sveinbj?rnsdóttir, 2002. ‘C-14 dating and the disappearance of Norsemen from Greenland’, in Europhysics News, MayJune 2002, pp. 77-80.

Miles, D., Worthington, M, Bridge, M. ‘Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory’

Total: ca.80 pages

Lecture 6: Processes of conservation

(video)

Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 7: ‘Cleaning’, chapter 8: ‘Stabilization’ and chapter 9: ‘Restoration’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 90-139.

Matero, F. 2000. ‘Ethics and Policy in Conservation’. GCI Newsletter, No. 15.1, Spring 2000, Getty Conservation Institute.

Case-studies Conservation Journal V&A

Total: ca. 45 pages

Lecture 7: Using collections. The balance between preservation and use.

(video)

Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 10: ’In working condition’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 140-151.

Keene, S. 2005. Chapter 3: ‘Collections’, in Fragments of the World. Uses of Museum Collections, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 25-44.

Keene, S. 1994. Objects as systems: A new challenge for conservation, in (ed.) Andrew Oddy, Restoration: Is it Acceptable?, British Museum, Occasional Paper 90, pp. 19-25.

Nardi, R. 1999. ‘Going public: a new approach to conservation education’, Museum International 201, pp.44-50.

Périer-D’Ieteren, C. 1998. ‘Tourism and conservation’. I Museum International 50(4), Oxford: Blackwelll publishers, pp. 5-14.

Peters, R. and Romanek, D. 2008. ‘Approaches to access: factors and variables’, in Conservation and Access, Contributions to the London Congress 15-19 September 2008, pp.1-6.

Wressnig, F. 1999. ‘The professional guide: building bridges between conservation and tourism. Museum International 201, pp. 40-43

Stovel, H. 2005. ‘Introduction’, in (Eds.) Stovel, H, Staqnley-Price, N og Killick, R. Conservation of Living Religious Heritage, Papers from the IICROM 2003 Forum on Living Religious Heritage: conserving the sacred, Rome: International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, pp. 1-11.

Total: 76 pages

Lecture 8. Introduction to preventive conservation and agents of deterioration

(video)

Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 11.1 Preventive conservation: ’In working condition’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, p. 152.

Pye, E. 2001. ‘Chapter 5: ‘Changein materials and objects’, in Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, pp.77-98.

Bradley, S. 1994 ’Chapter 6: Do objects have a finite lifetime?’, in (Ed) Simon J.Knell, Care of Collections, London: Routledge, pp. 51-59.

Bradley, S. 2003. ’Preventive conservation: the research legacy’, in (Ed) Townsend, J. et.al. Conservation Science 2002, Papers from the conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland 22-24 May 2002, pp. 3-7.

S. Knell, 1994. ‘Introduction: The context of collections care’, in (ed.) Simon J. Knell, Care of collections, London and New York: Routledge, 1-10.

Lewin, J. 1992. ‘Preventive Conservation’. GCI Newsletter 7 (1), pp.4-7

Kaplan, E. et.al. 2005. ‘Integrating preventive conservation into a collections move and rehousing project at the national museum of the American Indian’, JAIC, Vol 44, Nr.3, 217-232

Michalski, S. 1994. ‘A systematic approach to preservation. Description and integration with other museum activities’, in (Eds.) Roy Ashok and Perry Smith, Preventive Conservation. Practice Theory and research, Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September, pp.8-11.

Staniforth, S. 2006. ‘Agents of deterioration’, in The National Trust Manual of Housekeping. The care of collections in historic houses open to the public. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp.45-53.

Total: 78 pages

Lecture 9: Stewardship, an integral approach to responsible use of collections

Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 63-69, 152-181, 200-206.

The Burra Charter. 1979 (The Australian ICOMOS Charter for the conservation if Places of Cultural Significance)

Michalski, S. 1994. ‘A systematic approach to preservation. Description and integration with other museum activities’, in (Eds.) Roy Ashok and Perry Smith, Preventive Conservation. Practice Theory and research, Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September, pp.8-11

Oddy, Andrew, ‘Does reversibility exist?’, in : Reversibility – does it exist?, in British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, eds. A. Oddy and S. Carroll, British Museum Press, London (1999) 1-5.

Smith Richard, D. “Reversibility: a questionable philosophy” in : Reversibility – does it exist?, in British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, eds. A. Oddy and S. Carroll, British Museum Press, London (1999) 99-103.

Palazzi, Sergio “Reversibility: Dealing with a ghost”. , in : Reversibility – does it exist?, in British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, eds. A. Oddy and S. Carroll, British Museum Press, London (1999) 175-179.

Hanssen-Bauer, Fran?oise. "Stability as a technical and an ethical requirement in conservation".ICOM committee for conservation, 11th triennial meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1-6 September 1996: Preprints. 166-171.

Total: 58 pages

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