News

April 2020

Due to the current situation and present prognosis regarding COVID-19, we cancelled the following courses due to be held in 2020:

Identification of Insect Pests in Collections
Watercolours: examination, processes and care
Museum and Gallery Lighting: Theory and Practice
Hazards in Collections
Conservation of Tracing Paper
Conservation of Glass Objects (Seattle, USA)
Conservation of Glass Objects (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Digital Photography of Museum Objects
Retouching Modern and Contemporary Painted Surfaces
Chemistry and Conservation – a Refresher Day
Loans in Practice: objects and paintings
Nanocellulose Films in Paper Conservation

We are aiming to organise the courses again as soon as it is safe and sensible and will inform you once we have details.

Any enrolled participant will have been informed via email.

We hope that you and yours are well and will keep healthy.

January 2020

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO COVID-19 THESE COURSES WERE CANCELLED
We hope to organise these courses again soon. To view the details of these courses please visit our Archive. Until courses can safely take place in person we will continue organising our IAP Virtual courses.

• Chemistry and Conservation – a Refresher Day
• Chemistry for Conservators – correspondence course
• Conservation Mounting of Works of Art on Paper
• Conservation of Glass Objects (Seattle, USA)
• Conservation of Glass Objects (São Paulo, Brazil)
• Conservation of Tracing Paper
• Digital Photography of Museum Objects
• Examining Cross-sections of Paint Layers
• Giltwood Frame and Object Restoration Workshop
• Hazards in Collections
• Identification of Insect Pests in Collections
• Identification of Pigments
• Loans in Practice: objects and paintings
• Materials and Methods for Surface Cleaning and Removal of film-forming Materials
• Museum and Gallery Lighting: Theory and Practice
• Nanocellulose Films in Art Conservation
• Non-invasive Examination and Analysis of Museum Objects and Paintings
• Paper and Water – Washing Paper in Conservation
• Photodegradation and Microfading of Museum Objects
• Retouching Modern and Contemporary Painted Surfaces
• Watercolours: examination, processes and care

November 2019

‘Victoria received a Tru Vue Grant earlier in 2019 to enable her to attend the ‘Conservation of Tracing Paper’ course at the National Archives, led by Hildegard Homburger. Since February 2019 Victoria has been working as a paper conservator on a two-year project to conserve and prepare the paper-based collections of the V&A at their Blythe House Store for their decant into a new Centre for Research Collections in East London.’
Read her full blog post for the Institute of Conservation here.

The online course on Bronze Conservation (Bronze Behaving Badly) is available several times a year. Check forthcoming courses