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Jul 2026Webinar recording
We are happy to announce that the video recording of the AIC Webinar: Shifting Perspectives on Damage, Change, and Value is now available at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g3l1LvokDoWithin this webinar Jane Henderson and Robert Waller presentShifting our relationship with value: Developing flexibility in thinking and engagingABSTRACTThis paper explores key psychological and sociological insights that have enriched the conservation field, offering practical tools for enhancing not just our thinking but…
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Jul 2026Achieve more by communicating beyond your normal ensemble
Jane Henderson and Robert Waller hope you will join us at the IIC Congress Ghent, 8 – 11 September 2026: Ensembles: Conserving Interconnected Artworks, Artefacts and Collections for our presentation: Feedback in the Conservation Ensemble. If you can’t make it to the Congress, or just to prepare for the presentation, the full paper is available free online at: Feedback in the Conservation Ensemble. As a…
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Apr 2026Assessing risk to cultural property: online course
We still have a few spots left for our next MuseumStudy online course, Assessing risk to cultural property online course, beginning 2026 May 4. Current participants span the globe so time zone location will not be an issue. In this level 1 course we learn ideas fundamental to risk analysis and focus on developing a useful set of defined type 1 (rare and potentially catastrophic)…
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Apr 2026Hoping to see you in Montreal
We look forward to discussing collection care and museum management through risk analysis and data analytics perspectives. We will also share didactic approaches to understanding change in collection item utility value given to a change in state. Not least, we hope you will pick up one of the conference-related postcards we will have on hand for you. While supplies last, we will even give you…
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Oct 2025Workshop announcement – Berlin 2025
Assessing and managing risks to your collections – The Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model CPRAM 2025 November 18-21 Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, Remise, Spandauer Damm 7, 14059 Berlin (Charlottenburg) What is the problem? Preventive conservation is one of the most important aspects of collection management. Scientific and technical knowledge are constantly evolving, but are often applied slowly, incorrectly, or not at all in everyday museum life. Many…
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Sep 2023Risk-based approaches to preventive conservation: Which to choose for my situation?
Risk assessment and management approaches to preventive conservation were first suggested almost 35 years ago. Since then, numerous approaches have been developed, applied, and published. Three of the better known approaches include Quiskscan, ABC, and the Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model (CPRAM). People unfamiliar with these may think that they are interchangeable, and each could have value in any given context. That is not true….
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Aug 2023Shocking museum damages and losses: Museums must stop being shocked and start developing perspectives!
The museum world is repeatedly and regularly “shocked” by experiences of damage and loss from their collections. Take for example: • 2017 Museum theft: The discovery of stolen rare books from the Carnegie library • 2018 Museum fire: Fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil in September • 2019 Museum theft: Theft of jewels from Dresden’s Green room in November • 2020 Seismic damage:…
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Mar 20212020 is the poster child for risk management.
Mareike Friedrich What are risks? A risk is considered a departure from a goal. What was my goal in 2020? Well, I can tell you that it wasn’t finishing my last semester of school from my living room while socially distancing from my classmates. However, thanks to the risk management planning of my school, my province, and my country, I was eventually able to finish…
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Sep 2018Workshop Announcement in Leipzig November 2018
Assessing risks to your collections Leipzig, November 10th 2018, 9:30 to 5:30 A workshop with R. Robert Waller Protect Heritage Corp. In association with SicherheitsLeitfaden Kulturgut (SiLK) Today, preventive conservation has become a leading theme in all fields of cultural property. Useful scientific and technical knowledge continues to grow but is often incorporated in current practice slowly, incorrectly, or not at all. Despite the best intentions,…
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Sep 2018October 2018 Workshop Announcement
Assessing and managing risks to your collections A two-day workshop October 24 – 25, 2018. with R. Robert Waller This two-day workshop, Dr. Robert Waller will explain how to assess and manage risks to collections based on an integrated approach of estimating damage and loss and mitigation of damage and loss to cultural property. Workshop participants will learn: How to identify risks to collections, the agents…