Here is notice of the Natural Sciences Conservation Group 2002 Conference
and AGM
16th and 17th April at Castle Museum, Norwich
The Conservation Implications of Moving Collections
Tuesday 16th April
09.30 – 10.00 Arrival, registration, tea and coffee
10.00– 10.30 Introduction, housekeeping, address from Vanessa
Trevelyan, the Director of Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
10.30 – 11.00 Moving Collections at Castle Museum Martin Warren,
Collections Manager, NMAS
11.00 – 11.15 Cathy Proudlove, Head of Conservation, NMAS, title tbc
11.15 – 11.45 Approaches to historic marine spirit collections, two
examples compared. Amanda Sutherland, Force Museum Curator, Devon
and Cornwall Constabulary
11.45– 12.15 Voyages of Discovery - the packing and shipping of a
Natural History exhibition Mark Hunt, Technical Services Manager,
Constantine
12.15 – 13.00 NSCG AGM
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Entomology Collections and the ‘Thermo-Lignum’ treatment
Adrian Doyle, Conservation Scientist, NHM
14.30 – 15.00 Methods of Transport, Packing and Storage for an Anatomy
Collection Andries van Dam, Leiden Museum of Anatomy, University of
Leiden
15.00 – 15.15 Cliff Gothorp PEL, title tbc
15.15 – 15.45 Tea and coffee
15.45 – 16.15 Preparing 100,001 things for the move to the Ludlow
Museum Resource Centre Kate Andrew, Shropshire County Curator of
Natural History
16.15 – 16.45 Moving spirit collections to Darwin phase one. Ollie
Crimmen, Fish Section, NHM, London
16.45 – 17.00 Closing remarks
Wednesday 17th April
Morning: Tours of the Castle Museum Natural History Stores, tours of the
new Conservation Department laboratory Facilities Afternoon: Visit
off-site to the two new “superstores”, and the West Runton Elephant
material, at Gressenhall. This will rely on car-sharing on the day.
Cost of the conference will be £25.00 to members, £30.00 to non members,
£28.00 to UKIC members. Members must be paid up in advance of the day in
order to qualify for a vote in the AGM. So if you haven’t renewed your
membership already please do so now NSCG Conference 2002
To register please download the form from
http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/nscgform.rtf and return to Maggie Reilly, Zoology
Museum, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
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