Hi all,

Please find below details (in plain text) of the 2006 V&A Regional 
Summer School.

Leslie




  2006 V&A Regional Summer School with the University of Derby**

*Conservation of the challenging, exotic, unusual or just darn ridiculous*


    Meeting announcement and call for registration


*Conservation of the cover of Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme*

*A breast – a breast made from natural rubber. How do you dissuade those
enquiring fingers from having a feel and why should you? The reason:
deterioration of the rubber from both the natural chemicals on fingers
and the oxygen in the environment.* (V&A Museum number L.3000-1948)

Over the past years the University of Derby (UoD) and the Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A) have collaborated to provide heritage sector workers
in the East of England/Midlands region with a one day summer school.
This has been made possible due to the collaboration of Prof. Trevor
Brown (UoD) and Prof. Graham Martin (V&A) and financial support from the
Royal Society of Chemistry. The topics chosen are varied and are in
direct response to previous participant comments. This years event will
focus on *Conservation of the challenging, exotic, unusual or just darn
ridiculous*. Participants at previous events come from a wide variety of
heritage organisations and backgrounds. The event is non-profit making
and receives in-kind support from the UoD and the V&A. **

Date: Thursday 13 July 2006

Venue: The University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby. DE22 1GB Tel +44
(0)1332 590500 Fax: +44 (0)1332 597747 Large car park available on site.

Disabilities – full access is available to all. Please let the
organisers know if you have special requirements.

Refreshments – tea/coffee and water along with a sandwich type lunch is
included in the registration fee.

Registration fee – £55

*Conservation of the challenging, exotic, unusual or just darn ridiculous*


Agenda

09.30     Registration – refreshments available

10.00	*Welcome and opening remarks*, Prof. Trevor Brown (UoD)

10.15	*Finding, collecting, caring for and displaying 'dinosaurs': an 
insight into the workings of a geological museum*, Leslie Noe, Major 
Projects Officer, The Sedgwick Museum Cambridge

11.00	*Re-opening an Historic Water Mill of International Significance'* 
, Mary Smedley, Belper North Mill

11.45	*The Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful......*, Marion Kite, Head 
of Furniture, Textiles and Frames Conservation, V&A

12.30	    Lunch

1.45	*Group Photograph *– main University steps

2.00	*Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No its…..?**,* Louise Bacon, Head
Collections Conservation & Care, The Horniman Museum

2.45	*A Practical Demonstration of the Construction of a Stained Glass 
Window with a Consideration of Associated Conservation Issues. *Tony 
Waldron, Lecturer in Heritage Conservation at the University of Derby

3.30	Coffee

3.45	*The National Tram Museum at Crich,* Glynn Wilton

4.30	*Closing remarks*, Prof. Graham Martin (V&A Museum)**

4.45		*END*


Please register by giving your details (name, address, e-mail, telephone
number) to Prof. Trevor Brown at the University of Derby at

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Telephone +44 (0)1332 591752

Fax +44 (0)1332 597747

Address University of Derby, Kedleston Road, DERBY, DE22 1GB.

Please let Prof. Brown have an indication of any special dietary needs
when registering. A vegetarian option will be available.

11 May 2006



-- 
Dr Leslie Noè,
Major Projects Officer,
The Sedgwick Museum,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street,
CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EQ,
England.

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