A review of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s Herculaneum: Past and Future, examining how archaeology, conservation, architecture, geology, material culture, and site management combine to reveal the ancient city as both a preserved place and an ongoing preservation challenge.
Tag Archives: Conservation
Posts about the professional conservation of cultural heritage, including examination, documentation, treatment, preventive care, ethics, and conservation practice.
Dale Kronkright on Shaping Georgia O’Keeffe’s Digital Image
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, conservator Dale Kronkright helped test computational imaging technologies while making the research process visible to the public through digital media. This conversation explores the Georgia O’Keeffe Imaging Project as both a conservation experiment and a communications strategy: sophisticated documentation technologies paired with relatively simple online storytelling to connect conservation research, collections, and audiences.
Using Wikis for heritage collaboration and outreach
How collaborative wiki platforms can help heritage practitioners document knowledge, work together and expand public access to cultural information.
Social Networking for Conservators
A 2010 survey of the emerging “conservation cyberspace,” from Facebook groups and Twitter to professional wikis, blogs, and podcasts. The platforms have aged unevenly, but the post captures conservators beginning to use networked media not just for outreach, but for peer support, shared technical knowledge, advocacy, and collaborative professional infrastructure.
Audio Podcast: Rachel Penniman on giving voice to emerging conservators
Rachel Penniman discusses the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network and its effort to connect students, newcomers, and early-career conservators through the social web. The conversation shows digital media being used not simply for public outreach but to strengthen a professional community from within—creating peer networks, sharing knowledge, and giving newer practitioners greater visibility and voice in a field built around the long-term care of cultural resources.
Meet the Blogger: Dan Cull on Conservation for the i-Generation
Conservator Dan Cull reflects on how blogging changed both his professional confidence and his understanding of conservation as a cultural practice. His writing became a way to engage with ideas beyond his immediate workplace and to argue for a more collaborative, interdisciplinary model of conservation. The interview captures the social web functioning as professional infrastructure: a place where individual practitioners could test ideas, build networks, and challenge established organizational boundaries.
Preservation Today Netcast – May 2009
The World Digital Library debuts; the Museums and the Web conference addresses the social, cultural and technological issues of heritage online; The National Trust for Historic Preservation is bring back its popular This Place Matters social media campaign; The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training is planning a nationwide cemetery preservation summit in Nashville (interview with Jason Church)
Heritage DIY: How to clean cemetery monuments
By Jason Church Cemetery care and maintenance is undergoing a surge in popularity that hasn't been seen since the Victorian era. It's little wonder. Cemetery gravemarkers are at once memorials to those we've loved and pieces of art. Caring for them provides a connection to a world before the internet absorbed all of our attention. Cleaning these monuments properly is the best thing one can do to ensure that they will last for generations to come. And it's easily done too!
Kate Chopin House: Taking a look at a heritage recovery operation
By Jeff Guin A lot has happened in the three months since the National Historic Landmark Kate Chopin House was lost to fire. Much goes into a salvage effort of this scale, and you may be surprised that how much care has been taken with the remains of the building and of its surviving contents. Preservation Today recently spoke with Dustin Fuqua of the heritage research organization Cultural Lore about his experience leading the rescue operation. Here are some of his insights on the topic.
John Leeke V-log: Repairing moisture damage in wood
This time, John looks at moisture damage to a wooden door jamb. He explains how to evaluate the damage and how to effect a repair using epoxy. 25 min.