Registration is open!
10.00-10.30 Coffee and registration
10.30-10.45 Introduction
Building Community for Art in Transit
Vincent Laudato Beltran, Scientist, Getty Conservation Institute, US
10:45-11:45 PACKING
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Clare Richardson, Head of Conservation, Department of Conservation, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK.
Internal handling and transport versus external handling and transport
Wim Hoben, Location Manager, CCNL, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
How sustainable is the transit crate practice?
Ele von Monschaw, Senior Paintings Conservator, National Gallery of Ireland, Ireland.
Balancing sustainability; management for material reuse
Goizane Aizpurua Ibañez, Preventive Conservator of Heritage, Gordailua collection centre of Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa Kutxa Fundation, Spain.
11:45-12:00 Q&A
12.00-12.50 LUNCH BREAK
12:50-13:00 Introduction
13.00-14.00 TRANSPORTATION
The Travels of Erró: Moving 150 Paintings Across the North Atlantic Ocean
Edda Halldórsdóttir, Collection Registrar, and Aldís Snorradóttir Head of Administration, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland.
75 Years of experience using crates as protective covers in long term storage at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Marc Bongaarts, Head of Collection Care Technicians, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherland
Dr. Bart Ankersmit, Senior researcher, Cultural Heritage Laboratory, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Netherlands.
When artworks travel on the Seine, a revival of river transportation
Marc Goulpié, the Rouen Metropole Museum, France.
Sea freight and art transport – what is possible? And what is the risk?
Elisabeth Gram Christensen, Managing Director, Hizikia, Denmark.
14.00-14.15 Q&A
14:15-14:45 BREAK
14:45-15:45 TRUST AND TRACKING
Monitoring vibrations in transit
Bill Wei, Senior Conservator Scientist, Netherlands.
The Future of The Virtual Courier: Balancing Risk, Trust, and Environmental Responsibility
Thor Larsen, Head of Registrars, SMK - National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark.
A product of consensus on the ongoing revision of Packing principles for transport: EN 15946:2011.
Alissa Anderson, Adviser Collection Management, The Swedish National Heritage Board, Sweden.
Trust in transit: The relationships behind loan agreement numbers.
Joel Taylor, Researcher, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), Norway.
15:45-16:00 Q&A
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