IIC 2008 London Congress

Approaches to access: factors and variables

Renata Peters and Devorah Romanek

Representation and intervention: the symbiotic relationship of conservation and value

Joel Taylor and May Cassar

Giving contemporary murals a longer life: the challenges for muralists and conservators

Will Shank and Debbie Hess Norris

The conservation and relocation of a monumental petrachrome mural: Helen Lundeberg’s The History of Transportation

Rosa Lowinger and Andrea Morse

Conservation for presentation: a key for protecting monuments

Roberto Nardi

How do fragmentary images affect us?

Stephanie Fundel, Rainer Drewello, Sven Hoyer and Barbara Kügel

Values and opinions of the general public on wall paintings and their restoration: a preliminary study

Isabelle Brajer

Creating pre-bracketed exhibits

Catherine Magee and Greta Hansen

‘Botanical wonders’: the conservation and exhibition of the Harvard glass flowers

Stephen P. Koob, Scott E. Fulton and Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox

The transport and display of icons from Saint Catherine’s monastery

Tiarna Doherty, Bruce Metro and Rita Gomez

Access for native people and the public: exhibits at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

Jessica S. Johnson

Measurement and analysis of the global transport environment for packing cases for artifacts

Nobuyuki Kamba, Hiroshi Wada, Masahiko Tsukada, Yoshihiro Takagi and Ken Imakita

Vibration as a hazard during the transportation of canvas paintings

Lukasz Lasyk, Michal Lukomski, Lukasz Bratasz and Roman Kozlowski

Risk assessment during art loan and transportation at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens

Maria Papadimitriou and Elpida Vamvakari

The benefits and risks of anoxic display for colorants

Joyce H. Townsend, Jacob Thomas, Stephen Hackney and Andrew Lerwill

Optimum access at minimum risk: the dilemma of displaying Japanese woodblock prints

Agnes W. Brokerhof, Margrit Reuss, Fiona Mackinnon, Frank Ligterink, Han Neevel, Farideh Fekrsanati and Graeme Scott

Between conservation and access: implementation of integrated pest management at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

Naoko Sonoda and Shingo Hidaka

Dangerous liaisons

Valerie Blyth and Clair Battisson

Presentation in original contexts via microclimates

David Thickett

Optimizing drying strategies to reduce down times for actively-used flood damaged historic buildings

Nigel Blades, May Cassar and Phillip Biddulph

SS Great Britain: conservation and access – synergy and cost

David Watkinson and Matthew Tanner

Improving access to collections for sampling

Jane Henderson and Panagiota Manti

The influence of access to the artist on the conservation of Allen Jones’ work from 1960s

Paul Gardener, Aviva Burnstock and Ana Vasconcelos

Stories from a building site

Spike Bucklow

Public engagement with conservation at the British Library

Helen Shenton

The fireboat Alexander Grantham: an accessible artifact

Jonathan C.Y. Tse, Evita S. Yeung and Shing-Wai Chan

Conserving the Lesvos Petrified Forest

Evangelia Kyriazi and Nickolas Zouros

Science revealed: the hidden story of objects

Siobhan Watts, Dave Abbott, David Crombie, Angus Gunn and Annemarie La Pensée

Access to technical analysis: visualizing the invisible

Libby Sheldon

Unlimited access: safeguarding historic textiles on open display in public buildings in the UK

Alison Lister and Jo Banks

The benefits of access through handling outweigh the risks

Elizabeth Pye

Close encounters: enabling access to museum collections

Irit Narkiss and Helena Tomlin

A preservation decision tree for enabling current and long-term access at Library and Archives Canada

Bonnie Clark

New conservation opportunities in a world of digitization and access

Juergen Vervoorst

Prioritizing access in the conservation of National Trust collections

Katy Lithgow, Sarah Staniforth and Paul Etheridge

Power to prioritize: applying risk and condition information to the management of dispersed collections

Amber Xavier-Rowe, Claire Fry and Bethan Stanley

The collection care and access project: balancing demands on collections

Diane Gwilt

Conservation and access: exploring developments in the loan of paintings from Tate’s collection

Susan Breen, Helen Brett and Rebecca Hellen

An evaluation and preservation project at the National Museum of Denmark: management and presentation

Eva Salomonsen

Access at any cost? Strategies to maintain conservation standards and expertise in the V&A

Sandra Smith

Access denied: restricted access to indigenous cultural sites

Andrew Thorn

Preservation in situ: the future for archaeological conservators?

Chris Caple

Conserving and interpreting the historic huts of Antarctica

Julian Bickersteth, Sarah Clayton and Fiona Tennant

Tyntesfield: conservation and the volunteer

Mary Greenacre

Poster summaries