Conservation of Transport & Industrial Collections with Dave Morris

Ref: M3E34897

Location: West Dean
£766
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About this course

This course delivers the fundamental information needed to understand the ethics, role and approach of the conservator involved in the care of a transport or industrial collection, and to extend their knowledge of conservation principles. The programme consists of demonstrations, lectures and discussion sessions concentrating on conserving the many different materials encountered in transport and industrial collections. It also looks at preventive conservation, handling, storage and display and environmental monitoring and control.
The course is aimed at a spread of skill levels and although conservation focussed could be of great benefit to curators and other professionals in the museum and heritage sector.

Timetable

Day 1  

  • 11.30am-12pm - Course registration 
  • Lunch
  • What is a museum?   
  • Conservation ethics and issues
  • Dinner
  • Student Project

Day 2  

  • Introduction to the day 
  • Documentation and work recording
  • Close look at the term ‘Restoration’
  • Lunch
  • Conservation workshops - paper, books, furniture, clocks
  • Metal conservation – overview and background to metal corrosion and conservation problems/treatments, what is happening to your metals
  • Dinner
  • Corsair restoration- case study. Detailed look at the paint archaeology on WW2 aircraft Corsair KD431

Day 3  

  • 9am - Introduction to the day
  • Disaster planning - emergency treatments and good practices/thinking for a wide range of materials and situations
  • Leather - basic do’s dont’s and treatments, mold, wet, dry, cracked, painted over etc
  • Storage and display
  • Lunch 
  • Weald & Downland Musuem - A look at the challenges of objects stored outside and somethat have occasional use
  • Using objects- A session to explore the pro’s cons of using objects which will follow the W&D out of class session
  • Dinner 
  • Student presentations

Day 4   

  • 9am - Introduction to the day
  • Environmental controls and checking
  • Rubber and plastic - Basic recognition of types, aimed at vehicles etc- do’s, don’t’s treatments where they exist etc
  • Lunch
  • Object critical thinking  session – some examples of how to analyse objects for date provable evidence
  • Open discussion
     

General Information

Tutors

Dave Morris

David Morris AMA is the Principal Conservator at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset (Part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy). Joining the museum as a junior conservation and restoration engineer in 1981, he now has more than 40 years’ experience in this role.

Accommodation

Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.

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