Cleaning Museum Galleries and Their Contents: A Short Course on Collections
Care

February 10-13, 1997

The Texas Memorial Museum and International Academic Projects are sponsoring
a course, Cleaning Museum Galleries and Their Contents.  This is a four-day
intensive course for curators, collection managers, and conservators on
conservation cleaning techniques for maintaining galleries, showcases, and
objects on display in museums and historic houses. The course will consist
of both lectures and practical sessions. The principal lecturer will be
Robert Child, Head of Conservation, National Museum of Wales, and Advisor to
The National Trust, UK.  Jessica S. Johnson, Materials Conservation
Laboratory, Texas Memorial Museum, will also lecture and assist with
practical sessions.

Practical sessions will be held in historic buildings at the University of
Texas, Center for American History's Winedale Historical Center.  The
Winedale Historical Center is a complex of buildings used to interpret the
on-going story of the cultures of south-central Texas through exhibitions,
programs, and historic preservation. Winedale is situated on more than 215
acres located midway between Austin and Houston, four miles east of Round
Top, Texas.

For more information contact: Jessica S. Johnson, Course Coordinator,
Materials Conservation Laboratory, PRC #122, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX
78758; Tel: (512)471-6090, Fax: (512)471-6092; [log in to unmask]