Subject:
Placements for conservation
students in the Lesvos
Petrified Forest Museum
The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified
Forest is located in the picturesque village
of Sigri, in the
western edge of Lesvos
Island, the
third biggest Greek island. It was founded in 1994, aiming to study, research,
appoint, preserve, conserve and protect the Petrified Forest, which covers a large part of the western peninsula of
the island. The Petrified
Forest was created 20 million
years ago, due to the intense volcanic activity in the area. Apart from the
museum, where mobile findings (trunks, roots, branches, fruit, leaves etc) are
kept, several outdoor parks have been created, in the most important
fossil-bearing locations.
The Museum is offering up to five (5) placements
for conservation and restoration students in the period May-September 2008.
The students will work with the conservation and restoration team, supervised
by the head-conservator of the museum, Mrs. E. Kyriazi, and the director of the Museum, Dr. N. Zouros.
Their duties will include conservation, restoration, photography and
documentation of the fossils, and their work is expected to be realized both
within the museum premises, as well as in the outdoor
parks.
Candidates should be theoretically or practically
experienced in fossil or stone or glass conservation, they should be patient
and diligent, be able to work outdoors, have knowledge on computers and
photography and communicate in one of the following languages: Greek, English,
Italian or German.
The museum is offering bed and breakfast accommodation
within its premises.
Students should send their applications accompanied by
their curriculum vitae to both following e-mail addresses:
Evangelia
Kyriazi
Head
Conservator
Natural
History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest
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