Dear colleagues
Apologies for cross-posting.
The fourth seminar of the National Inventory Research Project (NIRP) will
be held at School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck,
University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, 2-5.30 pm, Friday
11 May 2007
For the past two and a half years, NIRP has been working with curators in
regional museums to research and create a union database of pre-1900 non-
British European oil paintings, as the first phase in a scheme to create a
publicly accessible database of all such paintings in UK public
collections. The project is a partnership between Birkbeck, University of
London, the University of Glasgow, and the National Gallery; it is funded
by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Getty Grant Program and
the Kress Foundation
As before, the seminar will include five inspiring presentations of recent
research discoveries in regional museums carried out by project staff.
There will also be an opportunity to feedback on a sample of the project
database as it will be presented on the Arts and Humanities Data Service
and to find out about the project launch in November 2007 and what we
intend to do in the future.
The seminar is free and includes tea and coffee and a glass of wine
afterwards - the perfect way to wind down at the end of the week and to
rekindle your enthusiasm for the potential of museum collections.
A full seminar programme is attached, or contact
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For further details of the project contact:
Andrew Greg
Project Director
National Inventory Research Project
Dept of History of Art
University of Glasgow G12 8QH
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