Big news for #conservators in the UK (and elsewhere, seeing as the scheme runs internationally): Icon has changed up its #accreditation scheme! 🎉

Highlights:
- simplified application process
- e-portfolio system to allow for easier case studies and evidence gathering
- option to submit audio and video material rather than written stuff
- more flexible timings
- flexible payment options as standard

Fee is now £950 💸

Read more here: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/the-icon-accreditation-assessment-process-is-changing.html

#conservator #conservation

Ben vandaag - 1 juli 2023 - exact negen jaar in dienst van @uva_amsterdam als #conservator #kartografie (bij het #AllardPierson). T g v #ketikoti daarom hier een paar historische #kaarten van #Suriname #vierjeeigenfeestje

Not your usual #conservator and not your usual conservator photo either! 📷

The other week (maybe month at this rate) I had my first ever photo shoot with a professional photographer and it was actually really fun.

Here are some of the results! Mischief, tools, and lots of yellow - a pretty good representation of me.

#ThrowbackThursday #conservation

@thecwordpodcast As a #conservator in private practice I get to make a lot of decisions myself, which is both great and awful, but mostly great!

I can make the decision to:
✅ Use suppliers committed to sustainability (or shout at them until they are)
✅ Reduce my dependency on single use plastics or overly toxic chemicals
✅ Use public transport
✅ Reuse materials in a variety of ways
✅ Repair equipment or source it second hand rather than buying new

So I do.

#EnvironmentMW #MuseumWeek

Are you even a #conservator if you haven't scraped old animal glue off a ceramic for an hour this week? (Just kidding. You are.)

Here's my workbench wonder for the week: a #ceramic #bull back to his old self.

Happy weekend, folks!

#conservation #BeforeAndAfter #ConservationRestoration

New episode! 📢

This time we're joined by business owner and #conservator Alison Lister as we explore the private sector in #conservation: from why we need to be more visible and share our know-how, to the future of the profession. 📈

Also tune in for an interview with book conservator Bridget Mitchell who tells us about finding joy in your business, and the power of rest.

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2023/05/17/s13e05-being-in-business/

#conservators #podcasts #PrivatePractice #business #selfemployed #TheCWordPodcast

Aside from some stressful bollocks in my inbox I've had a pretty fun day talking to #conservation students at University of #Lincoln about working on #exhibitions as a #conservator - something I've been doing for nine years or so!

Highlights include:
🦵 How to spare your knees and feet during installs
🤝 Becoming BFFs with your technicians
🧘 You're your own best tool so take care of yourself (and maybe we should all do pre-install yoga and post-deinstall stretching)

#omropfryslan roept een #vraag op: is dit goed of juist goed fout?
#klimaat #verdroging #temperatuurstijging

Twee nieuwe #braamsoorten opgenomen in officiële lijst van #Naturalis

#Fryslân heeft er officieel twee nieuwe braamsoorten bij. Daar is over gepubliceerd in het #botanische vakblad #Gorteria van Naturalis. #Karst #Meijer uit #Noordwolde heeft de nieuwe bramen ontdekt en omschreven. Hij is #conservator van het #Herbarium #Frisicum in #Wolvega.

lees verder op https://www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/1202744/twee-nieuwe-braamsoorten-opgenomen-in-officiele-lijst-van-naturalis

And I'm done! 🎉 It's been a hoot and a half working up here in #Huddersfield: the #TolsonMuseum is a gem, and the #BirdRoom doubly so.

Now to get home to Wales. 😅

#conservation #taxidermy #conservator #NaturalHistory #birds

Today's view was mostly the backside of this Montagu's harrier but there are worse ways to spend a Thursday! 🦅

Trying to finish up the #taxidermy #conservation here at #TolsonMuseum so the Bird Room is ready to be glazed and generally finished. Oh boy!

#conservator #NaturalHistory #collections #birds #MontagusHarrier #BirdsOfPrey

Well it's been a wonderful (and exhausting) week here in #Huddersfield: I've been conserving #taxidermy specimens that are going in the famous Bird Room from the 1920s. It's really starting to come together! This is an astonishing #NaturalHistory collection and talking to visitors about it is just awesome.

More of the same next week!

#conservation #preservation #museums #collections #conservator #birds

Today I'm travelling north from just outside of London to Yorkshire via various trains, with all my conservation gear and enough clothes for two weeks away from home. An adventure!

#travel #conservator #PublicTransport

This morning I got to give a talk about #podcasting as a #conservator to #LincolnUniversity #conservation students. It was fun! Hope they thought so too.

#TheCWordPodcast #conservators #podcasters

Call Out: #Conservation Stations at #HeritageOpenDays

If you're a #conservator working/based in England then consider becoming a Conservation Ambassador at HOD in Sep 2023: a lovely bit of #outreach!

Could be a pop-up studio, a bit of conservation work in a gallery, a specialist talk, or a special tour.

Contact sarah.holloway@heritageopendays.org.uk for more info!

Here's a write-up of last year's events involving #conservators for inspo: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/news-desk/news/meet-the-experts-conservation-conversations

I find this image so beautiful. It sort of captures what life as a #conservator can be like: a little meditative and fiddly, basically.

Full read here (it's short): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00513-3

#conservators #JapaneseTissue #conservation #preservation

It's Monday afternoon, I've gotten my old tiny jam jar stash out, and I'm making forbidden jam.

#conservation #jamjars #conservator #adhesives #reuse #ParaloidB72

Yesterday I had tremendous fun invading our local leisure centre and setting up another #salvage #training #workshop for #GLAM people in #Wales.

We covered:
🪣 Triage + salvage basics
🌊 Handling + drying stuff

Thanks to Connect-Conserve Cymru for letting me run these for the Emergency Planning Networks and cheers to Welsh gov for funding it so everyone could benefit! 🙏

#events #conservator #CollectionsCare #collections #conservation #EmergencyPlanning #disasterResponse #preservation

📢 Icon Photography Competition: win free membership!

#Icon is launching a new annual #photography #competition to source images communicating the magic of #conservation 📸

Entries should be original HQ images of an aspect of your work as a #conservator - get snapping, people!

⏰ Closes 28 Feb 2023
🏅 Winner announced 30 Mar 2023
🏆 Prize is 1 year free membership
🌐 Open to #conservators everywhere, including non-members

More info and how to submit here: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/icon-photography-competition.html

Geneviève Meurgues #French #conservator #chemicalengineer natural history specimen #conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of #Marseille #Roman boat & estab'of grande galerie de l'évolution @ Muséum national d'histoire naturelle d 21 Dec 2021 bit.ly/3x28udt
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Geneviève Meurgues #French #conservator #chemicalengineer natural history specimen #conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of #Marseille #Roman boat & estab'of grande galerie de l'évolution @ Muséum national d'histoire naturelle d 21 Dec 2021 bit.ly/3x28udt
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery