On October 27 and 28, 2011, The Carpenters’ Company will present an expanded Master Builder Dialogues event, Preserving America, in collaboration with the National Park Service.
Preserving America is geared toward architects, engineers, builders and others with a professional passion for historic preservation. The event will allow attendees to become familiar — through actual examples and site [...]
Natchitoches-area National Park Service organizations will showcase heritage projects and research at the annual Preservation in Your Community event on Aug. 2, 2011.
The come-and-go event will take place between 5-7 p.m. at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training’s (NCPTT) headquarters on Northwestern’s campus. The public is invited to sample light refreshments and visit [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm EDT
Theresa Anne Voellinger, Paper/Photograph Conservator, Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service will join us to discuss the Connecting to Collections Online Community’s Featured Resource for August – the online video series Cold Storage: A Long-Term Preservation Strategy for Film-Based Photographic Materials.
To join these events, go to http://www.connectingtocollections.org/ and visit the meeting room.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm EDT
Led by Barbara Cumberland, Conservator, Museum Conservation Services at the Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, and Carol DiSalvo, Integrated Pest Management Coordinator at the National Park Service. The following resources are recommended for this webinar:
- Identifying Museum Insect Pest Damage (PDF)
- 11 Step Process for Implementing an Integrated Pest Management Strategy (PDF)
This conference is focused on highlighting the under-appreciated decorative works of non-traditional artists. The conservation of these works is vital to preserving the life story of those artists outside the main stream art community. Artists come from all walks of life and every ethnic background, Folk and Outsider art is many times strongly patriotic, intensely spiritual, but always deeply personal. If not preserved we lose the window into the lives of the artists and their folk traditions.
The Conference will be held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The program will feature two days of contributed papers and a poster session. We are soliciting oral and poster presentations that discuss topics which center on Folk and Outsider art conservation and preservation. These include treatments, applications, future development directions, and research.
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RESTORE Workshop on Inspection, Repair and Preservation of High-rise Terra Cotta Structures
Friday, September 30, 2011-Saturday, October 1, 2011
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, School of Design Philadelphia, PA
CONTACT RESTORE
TEL: 212-749-1800
JCKAnderson@RESTOREtraining.org or
mike@RESTOREtraining.org
To register online, go to: www.RESTOREtraining.org
Beginning Friday, September 30, 2011, RESTORE will present a two-day Workshop on Inspection, Repair and Preservation of High-rise [...]
As part of its on-going partnership with the Association for Preservation Technology, NCPTT sponsored a “hands-on” workshop on nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for historic structures. The workshop, held at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin estate in Spring Green, Wisconsin, was aimed at advanced level preservation professionals, including engineers, architects, material conservators and craftspeople.
Over three days, participants explored the concepts, theories [...]
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is partnering with Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, the Preservation Trades Network, Inc. and other organizations to bring one of the largest gatherings of preservation and traditional trades people and enthusiasts in the world to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The 15th annual International Preservation Trades Workshop (IPTW) will be held August [...]
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The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) will be offering its next online course in the National Native Museum Training Program (NNMTP) series: Establishing a Tribal Museum.
Establishing a Tribal museum – or even just expanding or enhancing one – can be quite daunting. It is a job that demands a clear community vision and an [...]
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the University of Pittsburgh’s Architectural Studies Program, and Carnegie Museum of Art will hold a symposium exploring strategies for preserving and interpreting iconic modern house museums in celebration of Fallingwater’s 75th anniversary:
“When he designed Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright abandoned conventional notions of building and living. New materials and technologies permitted unprecedented experimentation, while [...]
