Handling and Maintenance of Historic House Collections Program
Tiffani Emig
FAIC is excited to present the "Handling and Maintenance of Historic House Collections" program, which includes a free webinar series taking place in January 2025 and a free in-person workshop taking place in February 2025. Preventive conservation is the backbone of historic housekeeping and essential to the preservation of our cultural heritage. Preservation of historic homes and their contents is especially challenging as objects are often exhibited with fewer controls than in a formal museum context.
Webinars: Join us for the webinar series to learn key concepts around preventive conservation practices, which are essential in caring for these important historical sites and the objects they house. The webinars will take place January 7, 9, 14, 16, 2025 at 1:00-2:00pm ET.
- Session 1: Introduction to preventive conservation within historic houses
- Session 2: Mitigating deterioration in an historic house context
- Session 3: Focus on handling and maintenance of historic house collections
- Session 4: Development of policies and procedures to support preventive practices in historic houses
Workshop: We welcome you to apply by November 17, 2024, to participate in the in-person workshop to gain training in preventive conservation through a housekeeping lens. The workshop explores the relationship between objects, their history of use, and their long-term preservation in a historic house setting. The workshop is immersive with four live online webinar sessions taking place before five days onsite, February 3-7, 2025, in two historic houses on the Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Registration to participate is free and participants will receive free accommodations during the in-person component of the workshop, as well as a $500 travel stipend.
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