CONSERVATION MATTERS IN WALES
Challenging Buildings : the search for solutions
One-day conference to be held on Thursday 15th June 2006, at
The Oakdale Institute, Museum of National History, St. Fagans, Cardiff.
Conference organised by the Federation of Museums and Art Galleries of Wales
and National Museum Wales and supported by CyMAL.
Programme
a.m.
10.00 Coffee and registration
10.25 Introduction
10.30 'The Physics of schadenfreude. How atmospheric
moisture confounds building restoration'. Tim Padfield
11.15 'Sustainable Buildings'. Mike Batt, Manager, The Carbon Trust
11.45 'Current Thinking on Environmental Standards'. Jonathan
Ashley-Smith
p.m.
12.00 Launch of the new National Museum Wales book on conservation.
"Things Fall Apart"
(A discount will be offered to delegates)
12.30 Questions and Discussion
1.00 Lunch
1.45 Case Study. Putting heat into reconstructed traditional buildings.
Gerallt Nash.
2.15 Case Study. Ruthin Gaol an essay in pragmatism. Jane Brunning,
Archivist - Denbigh Record Office.
2.45 Case Study. Newtown Textile - You need to wear a woolly.
Jane Henderson
3.05 Case Study. Hot, Hot, Hot in the Summer. Heather Perry.
3.25 The new Waterfront Museum at Swansea. Teething problems and
solutions. Bob Child.
3.45 Final discussion.
4.00 Coach leaves main car park for Cathays Park.
The costs of the conference is £10.00, to include lunch. If you wish to
attend, please detach and return the slip below together with payment to
Lynn Weaver, Conservation Department, National Museum Wales, Cathays Park,
Cardiff, CF10 3NP. Please make cheques payable to National Museum Wales.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Tim Padfield
Tim is a conservation scientist who has recently not quite retired from a
career curiously built on analyzing conservation blunders, most on the scale
of whole buildings. His talk will illuminate disaster stories in the lights
of physics which, if understood at the time, might have averted a
catastrophe.
Mike Batt, Manager of The Carbon Trust.
The Carbon Trust is an independent company funded by Government. Their role
is to help the UK move to a low carbon economy by helping business and the
public sector reduce carbon emissions now and capture the commercial
opportunities of low carbon technologies.
Jonathan Ashley-Smith.
Professor Jonathan Ashley-Smith was in charge of the Conservation Department
at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1977-2002. In the late
1980's he instigated the V&A's postgraduate programme of training and
research in collaboration with the Royal College of Art. In 1994 he was
granted a year's research leave to study the application of risk methodology
to strategic and tactical conservation decision-making. The outcome of this
study was a number of conference papers and four publications on the web.
His book, Risk Assessment for Object Conservation, was published in 1999.
In 2000 he was awarded the Plowden medal for his contribution to the
conservation profession. He was elected Secretary General of the
International Institute for Conservation in January 2003. Professor
Ashley-Smith's personal research topic is uncertainty in predicting the
effects of the environment on the state of objects.
Gerallt Nash, Curator, Dept. Social & Cultural National History Museum,
St.Fagans. Responsible for Historic Buildings Unit at St. Fagans.
Jane Brunning, Archivist - Denbigh Record Office.
Jane Henderson. AMUKIC, FIIC
Jane has been working in and studying in conservation and collections care
in Wales since 1984. She has a BSc in Archaeological Conservation and an
MSc in Collections Care. Jane has worked in conservation in both the
public and private sectors including acting as Conservation Manager for the
Council of Museums in Wales. Jane now teaches on Cardiff University's BSc in
Conservation and MSc in Collections Care. Jane continues to offer
consultancy services in collections care. Recent projects include a report
into the state of archaeological archives in Wales and a storage assessment
for the National Maritime Museum.
Heather Perry, Cynon Valley Museum.
Heather is County Collections Manager for Rhondda-Cynon-Taff CBC, based at
Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery, Aberdare. Since finishing her conservation
training at Cardiff University she has worked in museums in England and
Wales, her primary interest being preventative conservation and collection
care. She is the Welsh representative on the Board of Trustees for the
Institute of Conservation. '
Bob Child, Head of Conservation, National Museum Wales.
*A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Conservators' Christmas Conference.
This year we will have a wide-ranging programme discussing conservation work
currently being carried out in Wales.
6th December 2006 at Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare
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