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.

Day 1
10.30am-11.30am: Course Registration
11.30am-1pm: What is a museum?
Lunch
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

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