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Contacte al anunciante Job Summary Mission The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts-broadly interpreted to include objects, collections, architecture, and sites. The Institute serves the conservation community through scientific research, education and training, field projects, and the dissemination of information. In all its endeavors, the GCI creates and delivers knowledge that contributes to the conservation of the world...

Conservation in action: Cleaning Horace Walpoles library Strawberry Hill House. Photo: Matt Chung. TWICKENHAM .- To the untrained eye, it might look like glorified housework - but maintaining the treasures of Strawberry Hill House, requires expert conservation. Now, for the first time ever, visitors to Horace Walpole’s gothic castle in Twickenham can learn how historic books are cared for. When Horace Walpole (1717-97) acquired Strawberry Hill in 1747 – then a modest cottage – it soon became...

Community Heritage Grants Recipients 2019 Image   The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artefacts, letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and audio visual ...

Greece has been honored at the European Heritage Awards 2021, the EU intiative for cultural heritage organized by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, for the restoration project of the landmark Plaka Bridge in Epirus. The Plaka Bridge is a single arched stone-bridge, the largest and most impressive of its kind in Epirus. In February 2015, during a heavy storm that caused the river to overflow, a significant part of the main arch and the east pier of the bridge collapsed. The Plaka Brid...

‘Adopt’ a museum artefact, save history this festive season ByMohua DasMohua Das / Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 11:21 IST (This story was first published in the Times of India on December 20, 2020) Know someone who would like a sixth century ‘Head of a Damsel’ for Christmas? Or maybe a 400-year-old silk thangka painting of Chundhaa, goddess and protector from epidemics and diseases? Instead of the predictable exchange of presents this festive season, these endangered objects can make for a gi...