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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY ICCROM Staff

Office of the Director-General Marie-France Adolphe, ICCROM Newsletter, vol. 27, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Director- Administrative Assistant October 2001 General Sonia Widmer, Administrative Gaël de Guichen, Assistant to the Assistant Director-General (retired 31 July Editor-in-Chief: 2001) Documentation, Library and Terry Little Archives P. Richard Lindo, Chief Operating Marie-Christine Uginet, Manager Editor: Officer Maureen B. Fant Edda Trettin, Librarian Pilar House, Personal Assistant to French edition: the Director-General Margaret Ohanessian, Library Marthe Lemery, Assistant Françoise Vogel Françoise Ghin, Assistant Secretary Gianna Paganelli, Library Production assistant: Assistant Elisa Ortiz Vincenzo Alibrandi, Switchboard Operator/Registrar Nicolina Falciglia, Technical Photo research: Assistant Maria Mata Caravaca Advocacy Programme Gaël de Guichen, Programme Office of Communication and Design and layout: Director (retired 31 July 2001) Information Giancarlo De Pol Terry Little, Manager Monica Ardemagni, Project Printed in Italy by: Manager Monica Garcia Robles, Head, Web La Fenice Grafica and Data Management (on Susan Inman, Administrative secondment to the Government of Assistant Peru until 30 September 2002)

ISBN 92-9077-174-7 Architecture and M. Anna Stewart, Head, Training Archaeological Sites Information and Fellowships ISSN 1010-2639 Programme Alejandro Alva Balderrama, Elisa Ortiz, Administrative Programme Director Assistant Maria Teresa Jaquinta, Project Administration and Logistic Manager Services P. Richard Lindo, Chief Operating Ernesto Borrelli, Laboratory Co- Officer ordinator Patrice Simonnet, EPA Fund Co- Rahel Wolde Mikael, ordinator (seconded from France) Administrative Assistant Roberto Nahum, Information Collections Programme Systems Administrator Catherine Antomarchi, Programme Director Alessandro Menicucci, Head of In addition to the ICCROM Accountancy Image Archive, we thank the Rocco Mazzeo, Project Manager following for the use of Sally Bolstridge, Accountancy photographs: Catherine Katriina Similä, Project Manager Clerk Antomarchi, Ernesto Borelli, Emmanuel Caillé, CRATerre- Liliana Rizzo Vecchio, Maurizio Moriconi, Accountancy EAG, Gaël de Guichen, Joseph Administrative Assistant (retired Clerk King, Elena Incerti Medici, Jukka 30 September 2001) Jokilehto, Maria Teresa Enrico Carra, Head of Logistics Jaquinta, Claire-Emmanuelle le Françoise Vogel, Administrative Moal, Katriina Similä, Herb Assistant Pietro Baldi, Logistics Assistant Stovel Heritage Settlements Fabio Tosti, Messenger and Driver Cover: Days after an earthquake Programme in June 2001, Franz Grupp Herb Stovel, Programme Director cares for a painting rescued from the Ermita de Jerusalén in Nobuko Inaba, Project Manager the Convent of Santa Teresa in (seconded from Japan) Arequipa, Peru. See page 17 for the story. Photograph by Joseph King, Project Manager Magdalena Fuenzalida. CONTENTSCONTENTS

ICCROM Newsletter, vol. 27, October 2001

From the Director-General’s desk 2

New Member States 5 Official matters 6 ICCROM’s key partners 8 In memoriam 9

Programmes and Activities in 2001 The Advocacy Programme 10 MEDIA SAVE ART Award Graffiti: Time to change strategy?

The Architecture and Archaeological Sites Programme 12 International Architectural Conservation Course (ARC) Project Terra The NAMEC Programme Other activities The ICCROM Laboratory

The Collections Programme 16 Conservation in use Sharing Conservation Science: vers un langage commun (SCS) Conservation and Use of Collections (CUC) Current projects News from regional partners

The Heritage Settlements Programme 20 Integrated Territorial and Urban Conservation (ITUC) AFRICA 2009 Technical training for the conservation of building materials, and technologies

Meetings and Events November 2001 through 24 December 2002 Recent library acquisitions 26 Publications for sale at ICCROM 29

ICCROM’s Partners in 2001 Inside back cover

1 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR- GENERAL’S DESK

Nicholas Stanley-Price

In the first dawn of the new millennium, two necessarily to recognize and to promote the controversies in particular have raised cultural diversity that is characteristic of the world. fundamental issues for those concerned Preservation of the material expressions of that with the preservation of cultural heritage. diversity is the goal with which ICCROM was One was associated quite specifically with created by UNESCO in 1956. Needless to say, the threat and then the actual act of preservation of those material expressions is deliberate destruction of the two rock-cut subject to the values attached to them by society. statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in The medium in which cultural heritage is Afghanistan in March 2001. The other is the expressed may take either a tangible or an wider, continuing debate over the benefits intangible form—this has long been recognized. and costs of the globalization of society, And successful preservation of the material which popular concern has forced onto the expressions is informed by a full understanding of meetings agenda of the world’s political all cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. leaders. Understanding and Both debates have profound implications for an communication international, intergovernmental organization such It is in the area of cultural understanding that the as ICCROM that is devoted to the preservation of challenges arise. They arise in situations that cultural heritage. There are implications in the require understanding cross-culturally, across the demolitions at Bamiyan for re-thinking several disciplines, between the sciences and the arts, premises on which cultural heritage preservation between the professionals and the non- is based, for instance the notion of a universal specialists, and even between the young and the heritage value. The ramifications of the old. It is true that communication has become the globalization debate may appear to be less fastest-growing global industry; but successful immediately relevant. But it raises important communication depends on much more than questions about preserving cultural diversity (and modems and instant connectivity. not least its material form) in the face of the This is why education, training, and advocacy, increasing homogenization of world culture. in different forms, remain fundamental to Moreover, at a more mundane but nonetheless promoting respect for cultural diversity and to real level, global climate change is apparently preserving its material expressions. And it is why threatening the physical survival of cultural ICCROM continues to draw upon its long heritage (for instance through sea-level change, experience in this area to promote the goal with severe flooding, and atmospheric pollution). which it was originally founded, of contributing to As an international organization, ICCROM has the conservation of cultural heritage. The strategies adopted by ICCROM to achieve The ARC course at the time of writing is the this goal have, of course, evolved substantially object of an independent external review, with the over the years. The major shifts in strategy are aim of assessing its impact on the field and future evident to the reader who compares the activities directions. reported upon in this newsletter with those described in the annual newsletter of, say, fifteen Changing goals, changing years ago. In the 1980s, the most visible content component of ICCROM’s professional education The design of the education/training activities has strategies was the four regular courses held changed also because of the goals that they set annually in Rome. Nowadays, in response to themselves. If in earlier years there was a need for changing needs, the emphasis is on regional technical knowledge set within a context of courses forming part of long-term programmes conservation philosophy, the ability of (often organized in collaboration with former conservation professionals to manage and to participants of the Rome-based courses of earlier communicate is now seen to be equally years). Formal courses represent only one important. The content of education/training element in these programmes, which aim rather to activities reflects this change of emphasis. To take combine formal instruction with institution- but one example: in 1983 ICCROM offered for the building, provision of information, and the long- first time to participants of its regular courses a term maintenance of a partner network. Examples one-week workshop on teaching techniques and include the PREMA (1990–2000) programme for communication. In 2001, the topic of museum collections in sub-Saharan Africa, communication was included in the course on PREMO (1994–2000) for museum collections in “Conservation and use of collections” held in the Pacific region, the Gaia (1989–1998) and Terra Brazil, not as one topic amongst many but as the (1998–2002) projects on earthen construction main theme of the opening week of a nine-week conservation, ITUC (1996–2005) on integrated course. This one example illustrates how goals urban and territorial conservation, and the Africa and course content have changed in order to 2009 (1999–2009) programme for built heritage in meet changing needs. sub-Saharan Africa. All such programmes include The theme of communication amongst mechanisms for gradual transfer of responsibilities disciplines and, especially, between scientists and to the relevant region, either to existing non-scientists, which remains one of the problem institutions or through the creation of new ones areas of conservation, is also tackled directly with (as with the foundation of the Ecole du Patrimoine the new pilot course on “Sharing conservation Africain in Benin and the Programme for Museum science: vers un langage commun” (a bilingual Development in Africa in Kenya). (These and the course, thus exploring communication between other programmes mentioned here are described different languages too). Through its advocacy elsewhere in this newsletter.) programme, ICCROM has also long been ICCROM’s policy is to maintain an advisory promoting communication about cultural heritage role, if requested, on programmes for which the conservation between younger and older main organizational responsibilities have been generations, and between the specialists and the transferred. This is the case for the two new media. Increasingly, advocacy will form an integral centres in Benin and Kenya, but also for other element of most of the regular programmes aimed long-established courses for which there is primarily at professionals. continuing need. Thus, during the current year, Many of the changing goals and design of and in response to the requests of its partners, activities that I have alluded to here are reflected ICCROM has confirmed its commitment to in the provisional Programme and Budget for the keeping an active advisory role for the courses on biennium 2002–2003 which will be submitted by conservation of stone (in Venice) and of wood (in ICCROM’s Council to the General Assembly in Norway). The original concept behind both November 2001. The provisional programme is for courses derived from experience of the the most part proactive, that is it attempts to Architectural Conservation Course (ARC) which foresee and then to respond to emerging needs in was held annually at ICCROM for thirty-two years. conservation by designing appropriate activities. 3 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER At the same time, ICCROM has to respond to the proven its worth. At a time when, in many requests of its Member States for information, countries, resources for conservation are being technical advice and assistance on conservation. cut for other than high-profile projects, this Needless to say, the more successfully we can approach should prove the most cost-effective foresee emerging needs and design responsive even if less spectacular in the short term. programmes, the less resources should need to Nevertheless, to return to the opening be devoted to answering ad hoc requests. paragraph of this piece, it is inescapably true that, An important corollary of this premise would for a brief period, the Bamiyan demolitions assert that those programmes must emphasize an created more publicity for cultural heritage approach based on key concepts such as preservation than any number of programmes prevention, awareness, and preparedness. promoting public awareness. The power of global Nowhere is this more relevant than in the case of communications today allows the events in a disasters and emergencies. Paradoxically, we remote Afghanistan valley to be beamed need to be prepared for the unexpected. ICCROM worldwide. We need to harness the potential of has long been active in responding to requests this power so that it communicates not only the following natural disasters (most recently, setbacks but also the benefits of cultural heritage following the earthquake in Arequipa in Peru). It preservation. has also been developing teaching material and educational activities on risk preparedness. The incorporation of concepts of prevention and advocacy in long-term programmes has already

Seated Buddha, a mural painting from the upper part of the west wall of the shrine of the Big Buddha, Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The image, by Rakhaldas Sengupta (see obituary on page 9), from a collection of photos taken between 1969 and 1973 conserved in the ICCROM archive, is made even more precious by the events of 2001. 4 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER restoration training programme is NEW MEMBER being developed. Fifteen Estonians have attended ICCROM courses. Estonia was rep- STATES resented at events in north-eastern Europe organized recently by the Six nations have joined ICCROM since 2000, Heritage Settlements Programme. bringing total membership to 100. ICCROM welcomes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, Saudi Arabia China, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, and Slovakia. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia More information about their cultural heritage, (population 19.5 million) is a centre as well as about membership of ICCROM in of Islamic civilisation and culture general, can be found at www.iccrom.org. with a religious and royal heritage (mosques, palaces, and historic town centres). Underwater sites lie off the east and west coasts of the Bosnia and lion artefacts in more than 3700 cul- Arabian peninsula. Antiquities are Herzegovina tural institutions. More than protected by the Supreme Council Bosnia and Herzegovina (popula- 115,000 people are employed in the of Antiquities of the Department of tion 3.8 million) joins ICCROM less heritage sector. Antiquities and Museums, Min- than 10 years after independence. The State’s increasing awareness istry of Education. Saudi Arabia is a Its Ministry of Education, Culture, of conservation, as well as laws on signatory to international treaties Science, and Sports has been co-op- documentation, protection, and the and formulates its laws governing erating with UNESCO and the exportation of cultural relics, grew built and movable heritage accord- Council of Europe since 1995–96 to out of rapid economic develop- ingly. Seven Saudis have attended set forth the principles and strate- ment and an increase in tourism. ICCROM courses. gies for conservation. The conservation-restoration pro- fession is growing in China, but Slovakia Chad training is still provided by small- Slovakia (population 5.4 million) Chad (population 8.7 million) has scale programmes and profession- was part of Czechoslovakia until had legal structures for heritage als who have studied abroad, 1993, but the existing Ministry of management since 1960, when it including some of the 21 Chinese Slovak culture has been responsible became a republic. participants in ICCROM courses. for the designation of national her- Chad still faces the challenge of itage and for cultural legislation uneven development and damage Estonia since it was reorganized in 1989. It to national heritage caused by civil Estonia (population 1.4 million), a co-operates with the Institute for war. Professional training is partic- republic that became independent the Protection of Monuments and ularly needed: not just museum in 1991, is still developing its cul- its Inspectorate of Conservation. technicians, but also archaeologists, tural network. The Ministry of Cul- The Central List of Cultural Monu- conservators, and documentation ture supervises the arts, libraries ments includes 9108 monuments, experts look abroad to develop (597 collections including 10.8 mil- 27 sites, 53 building complexes, and their expertise. Five participants lion items), museums (179 collec- 13,000 cultural artefacts, not to from Chad have attended ICCROM tions include 5.7 million artefacts mention the collections from 100 courses. and employ 1400 people), and con- museums and galleries and 3290 li- servation of the heritage. Other her- braries. China itage institutions include the Slovakia offers diploma courses The People’s Republic of China, a Estonian Cultural Endowment, the at private institutes, academies and vast country with a population of Central Board of Antiquities, and specialised centres. Eight Slovaks 1.25 billion, has a long history and a the State Conservation Centre have attended courses at ICCROM. rich heritage: some 4 billion manu- KANUT. At the post-secondary scripts in 2700 libraries and 12 mil- level, a new conservation and 5 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER OFFICIAL MATTERS

XXII ICCROM to other sites) but with easier navi- General Assembly gation. The development of the Rome, Italy, 21–23 November new site has been undertaken with 2001 the generous technical collabora- ICCROM is governed by a General tion of EVTEK Institute of Art and Assembly, which meets in ordinary Design (Finland). session every two years with dele- gates from the organization’s Mem- Internship/visiting ber States. Session XXII will take professional place 21–23 November at the head- programme quarters of the United Nations ICCROM receives dozens of re- Food and Agricultural Organiza- quests each year from students, A few of the some 6000 life-size terra- cotta warriors found in the Mausoleum tion (FAO), in the heart of ancient young professionals, and scholars of the First Qin Emperor, near Xian, Rome. who would like to spend a period China, a World Heritage Site. China is one of six new members of ICCROM The General Assembly deter- of time on an internship or to un- (see page 5). mines ICCROM’s general policies dertake independent research at of and approves the organization’s our offices in Rome. A policy on in- Gallery of Art, Washington DC) programme of activities and bud- terns and visiting professionals has and Deirdre Windsor (American get for the two years to come. Oth- recently been drafted and will help Textile History Museum, Lowell, er important functions include ICCROM to respond to these re- Massachusetts), in February; electing Council members (half of quests. Details of the conditions • H.E. Mr Jozef Miklosko, the Am- the 24 members are up for election and information on how to apply bassador of Slovakia to Italy, and this year) and setting the contribu- will be available by December. Jana Trnovcová, Cultural At- tions of the Member States. Associ- Check the ICCROM Web site or taché of the Slovak Embassy and ate Members of ICCROM are also contact the Office of Communica- Director of the Slovak Institute in welcome to attend the sessions as tion & Information (addresses on Rome, in March; observers. back page). • officials from the High Commis- sion for the Development of Ar- www.iccrom.org Visitors to ICCROM riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March; The ICCROM Web site has been In addition to interns, activity par- • a group of some 50 members of improved during the past year ticipants, and readers at the IC- the American Institute of Archi- with more, regular information CROM library, the organization is tects’ Historic Resources Com- about both ICCROM activities also pleased to welcome individu- mittee, which held a conference and events and opportunities in als, delegations, and student in Rome, in April; the field of conservation-restora- groups from around the world to • a group of archival experts from tion in general. Improved tools al- its offices in Rome. the Republic of Korea to learn so make it easier to search the In the past year these have in- about the organization and its online ICCROM library. By De- cluded the following officials and present and future involvement cember 2001, a completely re- delegations: in archival conservation projects, designed Web site should be up • Dr Lester K. Little, Director of in May; and running to provide the same the American Academy in • a delegation of 15 officers from services (online library, worldwide Rome, and the Academy’s two the Ministries of Culture, Public conference listings and training op- Kress Conservation Fellows, Works and Environment, repre- portunities, comprehensive links Elizabeth Walmsley (National senting the Cultural Properties 6 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER It was with particular pleasure that ICCROM welcomed Dr Paul Philippot at headquarters on 4 ton DC)--during a summer I October 2001. Dr Philippot was study programme in June led by ICCROM Director from 1971 to Professor Roy Eugene Graham, 1977 and Deputy Director to Dr of the Catholic University Plenderleith before that. Widely • the 20 participants of the 14th In­ I recognized as one of the leading ternational Course on Technolo­ contributors to the philosophy and theory of conservation in the gy of Stone Conservation, led by 20th century, he was ICC ROM Mieke Van Molle, Course Co-or­ Award winner in 1981. dinator, and Ch ristina Danielli, I Course Assistant, in June • 15 students from the Universi­ Liliana Vecchio, Administrative dad Complutense de Madrid Assistant, Collections, retired at taking a master's course on cul­ the end of September. She began tural management and guests of work at ICCROM in 1979. The the Spanish Academy, in Sep­ many colleagues and partners tember from around the world who have had a chance to work with her will ICCROM miss her dedication, the high qual­ Administration in Taejon, Korea, publications ity of her work, and the special hu­ in June; In 2001, ICC ROM released two man touch she never lost, even • Representatives from the Japan­ new technical publications: GraDoc under the most urgent and compli­ ese Agency for Cultural Affairs, (Graphic Documentation Systems in cated conditions. in June; Mural Painting Conservation) and • H.E. Mr Mynt U Phone, Ambas­ University Postgraduate Curricula jor Monica Garcia Robles, Head, Data sador of Myanmar, in Septem­ Conservation Scientists, Proceedings & Web Management, has been se­ ber. oj the International Seminar, Bologna, conded to the Peruvian Ministry of 26-27 November 1999. Both books Foreign Affairs, starting in October Student groups are always wel­ are available through the ICC ROM 2001, to work on the digitalization come at ICCROM. In the past year bookshop (page 27). A book launch component of an integrated preser­ the following groups have visited for GraDoc, held at ICCROM in Jan­ vation project in the Ministry us: uary 2001, attracted dozens of IC­ archives in Lima. • in the framework of their her­ CROM collaborators and former itage preservation studies, a participants. Alessandro d'Amico, Luca Esposi­ group of 12 students from the to, Irma Ferrante and Daniela Pi­ Liceo Artistico Statale Via Ripet­ ICCROM staff news· lotti, security personnel assigned ta 218, Rome, in April Gael de Guichen, Programme Di­ by the Italian Government to pro­ • Professor Alfonso Munoz Cosme rector, Advocacy, and Assistant to vide guardian services to ICCROM, and a group of 25 students from the Director-General, retired in July have returned to their original posi­ the University of Madrid's Fac­ after 31 years of service. He is the tions within the Ministero per i ulty of Architecture as part of the only staff member to have worked Bern e Ie Attivita Culturali from 1 course "Restoration Theory and under all seven of ICCROM's direc­ October 2001. Guardian and recep­ Techniques", in May tors. He has been a leading thinker tion services for ICCROM are now • a group of graduate students in in the field of preventive conserva­ being provided by a private securi­ urban conservation from the tion and is well known for his work ty company under contract with Consortium for Urban Conser­ for the protection of museum col­ funds from the Government of vation in the Balkans-com­ lections in Africa and for encourag­ Italy. prised of the universities of ing the involvement of media and Ljubljana and Slovenia, the Insti­ youth in heritage preservation. The tute for the Protection of Culture first ICCROM newsletter, pub­ of Slovenia, and the Catholic lished in 1973, was produced by University of America (Washing­ Gael de Guichen. 7 ICCROM·NEWSLETTER International Council on Monuments and Sites (lCOMOS) ICOMOS, with headquarters in Paris, France, is an international Practically all ICCROM activities are carried non-governmental organization of out with partners, from the drafting of a professionals, dedicated to the con­ strategy to the organization of a course servation of the world's historic halfway around the world. A list of ICCROM's monuments and sites. ICOMOS partner institutions in 2001 is given on the provides a forum for professional inside back cover. This page features some dialogue and a vehicle for the col­ key partners with which ICCROM has lection, evaluation, and dissemina­ continuing, reciprocal relationships. tion of information on conservation principles, techniques, and policies. UNESCO World CROM's budget request for the Like ICCROM, it is an advisory Heritage Committee provision of services in 2001 and body to the World Heritage Com­ (WHC) gave ICCROM a mandate to devel­ mittee. It is an ex-officio member of In 1994, the UNESCO World Her­ op tvvo "training kits" for better im­ the ICCROM Council. ICOMOS' itage Committee gave ICCROM a plementation of the Convention, Historic Towns Committee is a key mandate to develop a global train­ one for nominations, the other for partner of ICCROM's Integrated ing strategy to help ensure the monitoring! periodic reporting. Territorial and Urban Conserva­ most effective use of funds. Years tion, or ITUC (see pages 20-22). of research, consultations, and ex­ Italy and the Euro­ pert meetings later, ICCROM pre­ Mediterranean International sented the "Global Training partnership Council of Museums Strategy for World Cultural Her­ Projects financed by Italy under (lCOM) itage" to the Committee at its 24th the multilateral programmes of In 2001 ICCROM participated in session in December 2000, in the Directorate General for Devel­ ICOM's triennial conference in Cairns, Australia. The Committee opment Co-operation (DGCS), Barcelona in July, and in a work­ commended ICCROM for the within the Italian Ministry of For­ shop on illicit traffic in artefacts and work, which is being extended to eign Affairs, have become an im­ the protection of cultural heritage form the basis of a global training portant component of ICCROM's in South-East Asia, in Hanoi, Viet action plan for World Heritage. programme and budgets. The col­ Nam, from 9 to 13 April. The Committee launched a "Pe­ laboration has gradually evolved Since 2000 ICCROM has hosted riodic Reporting" process in 2000, into a structured programme, Sup­ the secretariat of ICOM-CC (the to provide an overview of the state port Programme for Cultural Her­ Conservation Committee of of conservation of World Heritage i tage of North Africa and Near and ICOM), which has more than 1500 sites, region by region over a six­ Middle East Countries, or members around the world and 24 year period, starting with the Arab NAMEC where ICCROM's and specialized working groups. This States region. Abdelaziz Daoulatli, the Italian Government's develop­ year, the first extraordinary meet­ Chair of ICCROM's Council, and ment plans and priorities came to­ ing of the ICOM-CC Directory the chief consultant for the project, gether in a common strategy. More Board and the Working Group co­ presented the study to the World about the Euro-Mediterranean ordinators was held at ICCROM. Heritage Committee in Cairns. The partnership, NAMEC and co-op­ The 13th triennial meeting of I report was warmly commended for eration within the European Com­ ICOM-CC will take place for the the strength of its analysis and the mission's INCO-Med programme, first time in Latin America, in Rio honesty and forthrightness of its can be found in the account of the de Janeiro, on 22-28 September conclusions. Architecture and Archaeological 2002. For more information on this Also during the Cairns meeting, Sites Programme's activities on important event please contact the Committee supported IC­ pages 12-15. [email protected]. 8 ICCROM-NEWSLETTER IN MEMORIAM

ICCROM reports with sorrow the deaths of seven friends and colleagues. More biographical information can be found at www.iccrom.org.

Àgnes Timàr-Balàzsy was renowned as a consummate textiles scholar and a charismatic teacher. Àgnes Timàr-Balàzsy (1948–2001), and as a member of Council dur- head of the Faculty of Object Con- ing the terms of four Directors. As head of the Department of Conser- servation and of the Restorer an active member of the Finance vation Studies at the EVTEK Insti- Training Programmes at the Hun- and Programme Committee, his tute of Art and Design, Vantaa, garian National Museum, died on wise advice and loyal support for Finland, passed away, in Helsinki, 22 March, in Budapest, after a long ICCROM’s work helped provide on 19 March following a traffic ac- illness. A distinguished and great- continuity during a time of great cident in January. Rikhard worked ly loved member of the interna- expansion in ICCROM’s activities closely with ICCROM on several tional conservation community, and membership. projects and was well known and treasured friend of ICCROM, throughout the conservation- she had served on the Council Rakhaldas Sengupta (1926–2001) restoration field both as a lecturer since 1994, eventually as a Vice- died on 18 May. He served the Ar- and for his dynamic interest in Chairperson, and the Academic chaeological Survey of India from training and education. Advisory Committee since 1995. 1947 to 1984, as Director of Conser- She will be remembered by hun- vation from 1963. P.H.C. (Bing) Lucas (1925–2000), dreds of ICCROM course partici- Dr Sengupta was a Member of conservationist, died last Decem- pants, and not only by them, as an ICCROM Council from 1979 to ber in his native New Zealand. His exceptional teacher. 1981 and Vice President of the country’s first Director of Parks Àgnes started her career in con- General Assembly in 1984. He was and Reserves, he was one of the servation in 1966 at the National also a Member of the ICOMOS foremost leaders of the world con- Centre of Museums in Hungary. Training Committee and the Indi- servation movement and architect She later earned an MA in chemi- an National Trust for Arts and Cul- of the plan that made New cal engineering and the Ph.D. for tural Heritage (INTACH). Zealand’s parks among the finest her research on historical dyes. In 1976, in recognition of his con- in the world by the time he retired, Her scholarship was characterized tribution to the conservation of cul- in 1986. He also contributed to the by the application of solid scientif- tural heritage in India, he became, development of national parks in ic knowledge to practical conser- and remains, the only conservator China, Nepal, Peru, and islands of vation concerns, culminating, in to receive the Padma Shri award. the South Pacific. At the time of his 1998, with the publication of the death, he had recently stepped landmark Chemical Principles of Irie Bi Balo (1951–2001), of Côte down as the World Conservation Textile Conservation, co-authored d’Ivoire, died on 15 April. He was Union’s senior advisor, and WCPA with Dinah Eastop. an active member of the AFRICA vice-chair for World Heritage. 2009 Co-ordination Committee Jean Coural (1925–2001), comman- until November 2000. Until a year ICCROM has only recently deur de la Légion d’honneur and ago, he was the Chef du Cabinet learned of the death, in December honorary chair of the French Mo- for his country’s Culture Ministry, 1999, of Patrick Faulkner (1912– bilier national et les Manufactures, and most recently became Chef du 1999), architect, historian of medi- passed away on 29 March. Cabinet in the Ministry of Defence. aeval wooden architecture, au- Mr Coural served ICCROM thority on the repair of ancient from 1979 to 1991 as the delegate Rikhard Halldor Hördal (1946– monuments and sometime lectur- of France to the General Assembly 2001), painting conservator and er and consultant for ICCROM. 9 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER THE ADVOCACY PROGRAMME

MEDIA SAVE ART Award 2001 Graffiti: Time to change strategy? Carabinieri in Rome display recovered stolen art. Many articles submitted to The Advocacy Programme aims to preserve the country’s heritage. A this year’s MEDIA SAVE ART raise awareness about the fragility paper in Nigeria ran a series on a competition were about the illegal traffic of stolen artefacts. of cultural heritage. It helps to inte- museum exhibition containing grate advocacy of conservation of thousands of stolen artefacts. A tween diverse global economies cultural property into all of IC- piece on a day in the life of a tomb and by successful awareness cam- CROM’s work. It does this through robber in Etruscan Veio, Italy, gave paigns carried out by UNESCO producing teaching and informa- a rare behind-the-scenes report, and ICOM. Many articles this year tional material on the benefits of while yet another publication took addressed uncontrolled urbanisa- preservation for schools, conserva- a serious look at the effects of ur- tion and lack of awareness by the tion professionals, and the commu- banisation on the historic centre of public and political authorities. Al- nications sector. Beijing. ternative definitions of cultural her- Those are only a few of the var- itage have also emerged, based on MEDIA SAVE ART ied themes developed in the 395 ar- traditions linked to national identi- Award 2001 ticles submitted by 132 journalists ty. At the same time, articles have “We Care about Heritage, Do You ?” from around the world to the emphasised the concept of preser- “The Past in Peril” “Gods in Exile” fourth MEDIA SAVE ART journal- vation within the universal context “My Life as a Tombarolo” “The Art of ism competition. of all mankind. Pillaging” When vandals damaged UNESCO A decade of increased Future challenge World Heritage Site temples in participation With results that indicate a general Mnajdra, Malta, a major local In 1991, entries came from 15 coun- increase in the response by journal- newspaper launched a campaign to tries, nearly all of them in Europe, ists everywhere to this competition, but participation doubled with a significant goal of the MEDIA In 1991, after an ICCROM study revealed that each subsequent competition. Fifty- SAVE ART Award has been met: to only 5 percent of Italian and 1.7 percent of six countries, nearly four times as stimulate the media to focus on the French newspapers dealt with the problem of many as in the first year, are repre- fragility of cultural heritage in or- safeguarding cultural heritage, ICCROM sented in this year’s event. Geo- der to better inform the public. organised the MEDIA SAVE ART event in graphical distribution of journalists Thanks to the award, ICCROM has collaboration with UNESCO and the office of the Italian Prime Minister. It included has improved significantly as well. established important relationships international competitions, exhibitions, and The response this year has in- with the media, confirmed by re- roundtable discussions aimed at mobilising the creased in all areas. And while un- peat participation by many journal- media to promote the preservation of cultural limited entries used to be allowed, ists in the contest. heritage. this year the maximum is five arti- One challenge that remains, In 1997, ICCROM established the MEDIA cles per author. however, is that of making people SAVE ART Award. Since then, hundreds of journalists worldwide have submitted articles The focus of the submissions has aware of preventive conservation aimed at the general public on the theme of shifted from the abandonment of for protection of cultural heritage: safeguarding cultural heritage. An international archaeological sites to the pillaging very few articles addressed this im- jury of journalists and conservation of and illegal trafficking in stolen portant issue. Involvement by the professionals chooses the best article in each artefacts. The change can be ex- public in this area can be achieved category. Winners receive a prize of US$ 4,000, plained by a worldwide increase in through continued co-operation be- awarded during ICCROM’s General Assembly. conflicts, by sharper differences be- tween the press and ICCROM. 10 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Graffiti: Time to have tried and with what results. change strategy? The research was placed in the Are graffiti street art, priceless his- hands of Claire-Emmanuelle Le torical documents, a typical way Moal, student of Sciences and for young people to express them- Techniques of Heritage Manage- selves, or just a deplorable act of ment at the University of Montpel- vandalism? lier, France, who spent ten weeks That is a difficult question to an- at ICCROM. swer and the topic of a never-end- Her research concentrated on the ing debate between the graffitists cities of Rome, Milan, Paris, Bor- Who are the graffitists and citizens, who don’t know deaux, Toulouse, Lausanne, Helsin- and taggers? what to make of this phenomenon. ki, London, and Amsterdam. According to the ICCROM study, One thing, however, is certain: The objective of the study was to they are adolescents from all walks whenever graffiti are applied to learn everything that had been of life who have in common a taste for risk and misbehaviour. They use any surface not made for the pur- tried to combat graffiti in the fol- graffiti to assert themselves and to pose, they degrade the heritage— lowing areas: stand out from the crowd. whether we call them art or not. • laws (surveillance, repression At first graffiti were tolerated, and punishment); “I’d rather be a star in the street especially if the graffitists just • clean-up costs; than garbage in a museum.” —Nesty worked along train tracks, in tun- • consciousness raising and edu- 74 nels, in underground railways, or cation (publicity campaigns, ac- Nesty is trying to attract atten- on abandoned walls. But little by tions at schools); tion. The more people talk about little, graffiti, tags, paintings, and • incentives to rapid clean-up (re- his graffiti, the happier he is. Press markings of every sort have invad- duction of fines, special agree- and publicity campaigns may well ed cities large and small, respect- ments with cleaning companies, backfire. ing nothing, not historical free graffiti removal); “A terrain has to be alive, and if you monuments, not public buildings. • evaluation methods to verify the find the same graffiti after three years What looked like a passing fashion effects of these actions. you can consider it dead” —Marko, has become an urban blight for 3DT cities that must sustain the elevat- How they see it Some cities, such as Helsinki, ed cleaning costs. The results are quite surprising and have obtained excellent results in suggest new strategies that must cleaning the painted surfaces sys- An ICCROM study take into consideration the psychol- tematically and quickly (within 10 For the last five years, ICCROM ogy of the graffitist/tagger. Let’s days). At the end of a certain period has been participating in a cam- hear what some of them say for of time, a tagger like Marko aban- paign to raise the awareness of themselves. The quotations that fol- dons the “dead” wall. young people against graffiti. It low are from G. Bischoff and J. Mal- was launched by the office of the land, Kapital, un an de graffiti à Paris, After Ms Le Moal’s report is com- Mayor of Rome in collaboration 2nd ed. (Paris, Editions alterna- plete, ICCROM will devote a page with the Istituto Centrale per il tives, 2001). on its Web site to the problem. It Restauro. A programme was con- “Graffiti is not so much a language will provide a complete overview ceived for the schools and a manu- as a way of seeing differently. It’s not of the different strategies adopted, al for the teachers. about making drawings on a wall with which should make it easier to Unfortunately, because the proj- a spray can. It’s all a mentality.” — combine our efforts to understand ect did not include a formal evalu- Rush, THS and beat this phenomenon. ation method, the results have Rush enjoys misbehaviour and Meanwhile, awareness cam- been difficult to assess. risk. It is thus pointless to try to paigns must concentrate on the Thus ICCROM decided to carry frighten him with punishment or heritage rather than on the graffiti out a study of how the mayors of to offer him space to work. These and give young people a sense of other European cities have faced are only reasons for him to keep belonging to their city. this problem, what solutions they on spraying paint. 11 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER THETHE ARCHITECTUREARCHITECTURE ANDAND ARCHAEOLOGICALARCHAEOLOGICAL SITESSITES PROGRAMMEPROGRAMME

International Architectural Conservation Course (ARC) Project Terra The NAMEC Programme Other activities The ICCROM Laboratory Participants in the working session on glazed architectural tiles held last May at ICCROM and the Spanish Academy The Architecture and Archaeologi- ICCROM ‘satellite’ courses, on in Rome. cal Sites Programme (AASP) is the such topics as wood, earthen archi- unit in charge of implementing IC- tecture, stone, modern architec- CROM’s programme in the field of ture, and architectural surfaces, as emy in Rome to plan approaches to architectural and archaeological well as other regional activities. future activities. Aiming to interna- site conservation. Its aim is to con- ICCROM’s pioneer role in archi- tionalise the debate, the initiative tribute to ICCROM’s role in world- tectural conservation training is provided an open forum on the wide conservation and restoration now the object of an external re- main topics related to the field. of cultural property by initiating, view. The results of the study, Some topics of discussion have developing, promoting, and facili- drawing upon a survey of former been proposed: formal restoration tating conditions for such conser- course participants, instructors, criteria for decorated ceramics vation and restoration, in its and other teaching specialists in the used in architecture; the architec- specific field of architectural and field, will be reported at the Gener- tural conservation process; the role archaeological site conservation. al Assembly in November 2001. It is of scientific analysis in the conser- expected that these will measure vation of decorated ceramics used International the impact of ARC while also indi- in an architectural context; the role Architectural cating future needs in that field. of historical analysis. Conservation Course (ARC) Conservation of glazed Project Terra Rethinking architectural architectural tiles Conservation of Earthen conservation The Programme has, in the mean- Architecture Regarded as one of ICCROM’s time, launched a new series of stud- The international conference held flagship activities, the Internation- ies on special topics, the first one in May 2000 in Torquay, England, al Architectural Conservation being devoted to the conservation was the latest in a series of interna- Course (ARC) has trained more of glazed architectural tiles. tional events on earthen architec- than 600 architectural conservators A two-day working session on ture conservation that began in Iran in 32 sessions in Rome since 1965. this theme of special interest in the in 1972 and that have profoundly It has helped create a network of field took place on 24–25 May 2001 affected the development of the specialists and has generated many at ICCROM and the Spanish Acad- field in the last 30 years. Each con- 12 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER ference made its mark by articulat- While policies and approaches ing the needs of the field, motivat- can be promoted internationally, ing activities, and promoting a substantive action must take place network of practitioners around at the local and regional levels. the world. During the 1990s, several local and By the 1980s, the need for spe- regional activities significantly ad- cialized education in earthen archi- vanced the cause of earthen archi- tecture had drawn greater tecture. attention. A framework was need- The Management Plan of the ed through which methods and ap- World Heritage Site of Chan Chan, The World Heritage Site of Chan Chan, Peru, capital of the Chimu kingdom, which reached its proaches to the problems of in Peru, that of Joya de Cerén, in El peak in the 15th century. The adobe, or earthen, conserving earthen architecture Salvador, and of several historic structures are endangered by natural erosion from rain and air. would be made apparent and ad- city centres represent the first re- dressed through development of sult of the establishment of inte- tions have facilitated, promoted, skills. grated planning for long-term and, through their presence and au- The Second Pan-American preservation. Even so, the con- thority, sanctioned these valuable Course on the Conservation and cepts of planning, management, efforts. They have likewise con- Management of Earthen Architec- and conservation are still not suffi- tributed to the dissemination of tural and Archaeological Heritage, ciently accepted to be able to direct ideas by placing them in a world or PAT99, in Trujillo, Peru, in late efforts away from traditional, nar- perspective and facilitating access 1999, represents the most recent rowly focused treatment ap- to information. Their involvement achievement in on-site educational proaches. sends strong, positive signals to the programmes on conservation of In some cases, such responses scientific, academic, and profes- earthen architecture within the in- will find support in legislation that sional communities, as well as to stitutional collaboration pro- imposes regulations to protect the institutions interested in earthen ar- gramme known as Project Terra, a heritage. In others, support will chitecture. joint effort of the International Cen- come through the promotion of tre for Earth Construction – School planning and management, or The NAMEC of Architecture of Grenoble through capitalizing on ecological Programme (CRATerre-EAG), the Getty Con- agendas, such as bio-architecture The most recent activities, servation Institute, and ICCROM. and sustainable construction. 1998–2001, carried out within the Project Terra serves today as an in- International organizations will Support Programme for Cultural stitutional framework for the Terra need to do more to encourage spe- Heritage of North Africa and Near Consortium and for several current cific activities in specific regions. and Middle East Countries research activities. Through their work these organisa- (NAMEC) included the third ses- sion of the Tunis course for heritage Building with earth architects, managed by the Institut Earthen structures range from simple forms to vast, monumental sites of National du Patrimoine and the great complexity, and many important sites are threatened, including Tarim Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine, in Historic City, in Yemen, the Tel-Dan Canaanite Gate, in Israel, and Cusco, in Tunisia; the Algiers course on ar- Peru. Indeed, earthen sites account for 10 percent of the UNESCO World chaeological conservation and Heritage List as well as 57 percent of its List of World Heritage in Danger. Of restoration, managed by the the monuments on the World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites, sixteen are of earthen construction. Agence Nationale d’Archéologie et Progress in conservation and progress in new earthen construction are de Protection des Sites et Monu- interdependent. The continuity of the tradition of building with earth informs ments Historiques (ANAPSMH), in conservation practice, while preservation of this architectural legacy inspires Algeria; and the Rabat museum- its future use and potential. Yet conservation of earthen architecture is still collection conservation-restoration coming into its own as a discipline. course, organized in collaboration A renewed commitment to the conservation of earthen architecture and the promotion of its values is essential for this heritage to be universally with the Direction Générale du Pat- recognized as an area of study and of professional practice. rimoine du Ministère des Affaires Culturelles (DPC), in Morocco. 13 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER in the Arab countries’, the first of Ministry of Public Works and the the periodic reporting studies sub- Department of Antiquities, Gionata mitted to the World Heritage Com- Rizzi conducted a technical mis- mittee at its 24th annual session, in sion, 6–9 May 2001, to assess the Cairns, Australia, 2000. impact of the proposed construc- tion of an underground parking Other activities structure in proximity to the an- Technical missions were carried out cient walls of Nicosia, Cyprus. in response to specific requests The NAMEC Programme: a field exercise as part of the Tunis from member states. The ICCROM architectural conservation course Lebanon. Under a contract from Laboratory the UNESCO office in Beirut, two Short specialized seminars Between 1994 and 2001 NAMEC ICCROM consultants, Gionata In late November 2000, more than benefited from a contribution of Rizzi and Donatella Zari Gi- 25 participants and six invited US$ 5.5 million from the Italian Co- antomassi, collaborated (4–11 Feb- speakers shared experience and in- operation for Development. The ruary 2001) with the Direction- formation at a seminar held at the Getty Grant Program, UNESCO, Générale des Antiquités (DGA) of ICCROM Laboratory on “Porosity and the French Government added Lebanon in a study of wall paint- and Porosimetry: their importance, their support, which was used to ings in churches in the Qadisha Val- implications and development in organize the project’s first phase ley, a World Heritage site. Their the cultural heritage sector”. (the Tunis architectural conserva- preliminary survey of the sites of This was the first in a series of tion course, 1993–96). The Euro- the church of Mar (Saint) Charbel, theme-based seminars that the pean Commission, through the Maad (Jbeil region), and the Qan- Laboratory would like to co-ordi- Euromed Heritage Programme, noubine convent (Qadisha Valley) nate periodically. The main objec- contributed generously to the de- is to lead to a one-month training tive is to stimulate discussion velopment phase (1998–2001). The session on the site of Qannoubine among specialists on specific strategy developed within the proj- to be held before the end of 2001. themes related to the most recent ect was recognised as an important Cyprus. At the request of the developments in investigation contribution to the further consoli- techniques applied to the study of dation of the activities and transfer materials of cultural heritage. A The Roman ruins (the basilica) of of responsibilities to host countries Volubilis, Morocco, a World Heritage further objective is to create a se- of the region. Site on the western edge of the Roman ries of working groups whereby Empire. Unlike many cities of Roman Definition of a Management Africa, Volubilis was not abandoned participants can pool their experi- after the Romans left, or even after the Plan Matrix has been the next step Arab conquest of North Africa in the ence to optimize and develop di- in Italy–ICCROM collaboration. late 7th century, but in the 18th century. agnostic technology. This includes a five-year pro- gramme of management planning for archaeological resources, organ- ized in the framework of multilat- eral collaboration with the Italian Co-operation for Development and oriented towards activities in Jor- dan, Syria, and Lebanon. Management and conservation planning for archaeological sites have been recognized as a priority for the Near East countries at sever- al international meetings. The issue was mentioned in the recommen- dations of the ‘Report of the state of conservation of the World Heritage 14 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER in the Arab countries’, the first of Ministry of Public Works and the the periodic reporting studies sub- Department of Antiquities, Gionata mitted to the World Heritage Com- Rizzi conducted a technical mis- mittee at its 24th annual session, in sion, 6–9 May 2001, to assess the Cairns, Australia, 2000. impact of the proposed construc- tion of an underground parking Other activities structure in proximity to the an- Technical missions were carried out cient walls of Nicosia, Cyprus. in response to specific requests The NAMEC Programme: a field exercise as part of the Tunis from member states. The ICCROM architectural conservation course Lebanon. Under a contract from Laboratory the UNESCO office in Beirut, two Short specialized seminars Between 1994 and 2001 NAMEC ICCROM consultants, Gionata In late November 2000, more than benefited from a contribution of Rizzi and Donatella Zari Gi- 25 participants and six invited US$ 5.5 million from the Italian Co- antomassi, collaborated (4–11 Feb- speakers shared experience and in- operation for Development. The ruary 2001) with the Direction- formation at a seminar held at the Getty Grant Program, UNESCO, Générale des Antiquités (DGA) of ICCROM Laboratory on “Porosity and the French Government added Lebanon in a study of wall paint- and Porosimetry: their importance, their support, which was used to ings in churches in the Qadisha Val- implications and development in organize the project’s first phase ley, a World Heritage site. Their the cultural heritage sector”. (the Tunis architectural conserva- preliminary survey of the sites of This was the first in a series of tion course, 1993–96). The Euro- the church of Mar (Saint) Charbel, theme-based seminars that the pean Commission, through the Maad (Jbeil region), and the Qan- Laboratory would like to co-ordi- Euromed Heritage Programme, noubine convent (Qadisha Valley) nate periodically. The main objec- contributed generously to the de- is to lead to a one-month training tive is to stimulate discussion velopment phase (1998–2001). The session on the site of Qannoubine among specialists on specific strategy developed within the proj- to be held before the end of 2001. themes related to the most recent ect was recognised as an important Cyprus. At the request of the developments in investigation contribution to the further consoli- techniques applied to the study of dation of the activities and transfer materials of cultural heritage. A The Roman ruins (the basilica) of of responsibilities to host countries Volubilis, Morocco, a World Heritage further objective is to create a se- of the region. Site on the western edge of the Roman ries of working groups whereby Empire. Unlike many cities of Roman Definition of a Management Africa, Volubilis was not abandoned participants can pool their experi- after the Romans left, or even after the Plan Matrix has been the next step Arab conquest of North Africa in the ence to optimize and develop di- in Italy–ICCROM collaboration. late 7th century, but in the 18th century. agnostic technology. This includes a five-year pro- gramme of management planning for archaeological resources, organ- ized in the framework of multilat- eral collaboration with the Italian Co-operation for Development and oriented towards activities in Jor- dan, Syria, and Lebanon. Management and conservation planning for archaeological sites have been recognized as a priority for the Near East countries at sever- al international meetings. The issue was mentioned in the recommen- dations of the ‘Report of the state of conservation of the World Heritage 14 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Thanks to the scientific and tech- historic monuments. The group, nical support of Thermoquest (a which consists of geologists, leading producer of instruments chemists, physicists, and art histori- for analysis), an experimental ses- ans, agreed to work together to cre- sion was included. A first result of ate a database on the state of the seminar is a CD-ROM contain- conservation and the historic evo- ing information, presentations, and lution of the monuments of Mar- discussions. In view of the success rakech. As a result they are trying Interns at work in the ICCROM of the initiative, a second meeting to extend this policy to Morocco’s Laboratory: Beatrice Muscatello, left, will follow up the results and con- entire archaeological and architec- and Yang Yuchuan, right clusions of the first encounter. tural heritage with a view to a pos- sible future programme of search with the Italian Centre for European Union co-operation intervention and sites management Research, Florence. A Concerted Action (ERB-IC18- plan. Ewa Sandström Malinowski, CT98-0384) within the European As a follow-up to this network- architect, Ph.D., and researcher at Commission’s INCO-Med pro- ing among countries of the the Institute of Conservation of the gramme, titled “Study, characteri- Mediterranean basin, a new co-op- University of Gothenburg, Sweden, zation and analysis of degradation erative initiative has been consid- researched historic mortars, the use phenomena of ancient, traditional ered. A meeting in Casablanca, in of mortars in conservation, and the and improved building materials collaboration with the Caddy use of traditional building materi- of geologic origin used in construc- Ayyad University, was held to als and crafts in Rome. tion of historical Monuments in the evaluate the need to establish a vo- Tatiana Falcinelli, an under- Mediterranean area”, which began cabulary and common terminolo- graduate at the Faculty of Engi- in October 1998, will conclude at gy in science, technology and neering of the University of Rome the end of this year. The results architecture to facilitate communi- La Sapienza carried out a research have been satisfactory in terms of cation among scientists, and pro- project for part of the experimental scientific activity and networking fessionals of different languages phase of her degree thesis, “Defin- among scientists of ten countries (Arabic, Berber, Catalan, English, ing chemico-physical parameters of (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, French, German, Greek, Italian, polysiloxane polymers used as pro- Spain, United Kingdom, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish), tective agents for architectural sur- Malta, Morocco, Tunisia) and dif- in the field of cultural heritage in faces”. ferent disciplines. the Mediterranean area. Annalisa Geniali, an under- Four monuments have been graduate in Environmental Science studied in a co-operative activity: Laboratory interns activity at the University of Urbino (Italy), Al Badi Palace and Bab Agnaou The lab hosted six interns during completed her thesis, “A study on Gate, Marrakech, Morocco (with the period 2000–2001. alterations of terpenic resins used the co-ordination of the ICCROM Beatrice Muscatello, Ph.D., on artistic objects in museum envi- Laboratory); the Aqueduct of chemist, studied evaluation meth- ronments”, a study of how mastic Hadrian, in northern Tunisia (with odology of restoration mortar in behaves under accelerated weather the co-ordination of the Universitat collaboration with the Faculty of conditions. Autónoma de Barcelona), and El Engineering of the University Yang Yuchuan, a chemist who Merdani Mosque, Cairo, Egypt Rome La Sapienza, Italy, and with works as a stone conservator at the (with the co-ordination of the Uni- the support of the M.A.C (Modern Henan Ancient Building Preserva- versity of Aachen). Advanced Concrete) company, Tre- tion Institute in Shengzhou, China, In terms of capacity building, viso, Italy. held a scholarship from the Italian noteworthy is the founding of the Fanny Cerri, chemist, completed government. He researched exist- first multidisciplinary research the research she had started with ing Chinese literature on architec- group of Morocco (Groupe d’E- Beatrice Muscatello into the behav- tural conservation in order to tudes et de recherches sur les mon- iour, characteristics, and applica- compare Asian conservation ap- uments historiques, or GERMH) tions of plasters for architectural proaches and techniques with working on scientific analysis of surfaces. She is currently doing re- those of the West. 15 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER THE COLLECTIONS PROGRAMME

Conservation in use Sharing conservation science: vers un langage commun (SCS) Conservation and Use of Collections (CUC) Participants, teachers, and co- Current projects ordination team of SCS, the four-week interdisciplinary pilot course held last News from regional partners summer in Paris

The Collections Programme aims needs. That is one of the themes partners has become our principal to integrate conservation and use of explored in the course “Conserva- asset for building innovative and heritage collections for the long- tion and Use of Collections”. relevant projects. term benefit of the community. Early conservation education is the theme of the CURRIC project, Sharing conservation Conservation in use which is involving a number of science: vers un In the increasingly diversified con- universities in looking at new ways langage commun text of heritage conservation, the of teaching future conservation sci- (SCS) main challenge today has become entists. Paris, France, 8 June–6 July developing practical, efficient, and Another important recent goal 2001 relevant tools for ICCROM’s Mem- has been to reinforce relations with Although the concept of interdisci- ber States. national, regional, and internation- plinary decision-making appears In 2001, the Collection Pro- al professional organizations. For frequently in professional literature gramme’s approach, in collabora- an intergovernmental organization and discourse, its processes are not tion with other heritage like ICCROM, this presents an im- always clear or successful. In co-op- institutions, was especially orient- portant link to the professional eration with the Ecole Nationale du ed to the theme of communication, community. Patrimoine and a number of French foremost, communication between Regional institutions such as the conservation institutions and re- all those involved in conservation Pacific Islands Museum Associa- search laboratories, ICCROM de- who must know how to best use tion (PIMA), the Ecole du Patri- cided to address this issue with their experience and skills to identi- moine Africain (EPA), and the Visits and case studies to sites and fy the choices and decisions to be Programme for Museum Develop- laboratories in Paris were an essential taken for any given work. That was ment in Africa (PMDA) have con- part of the SCS course. the focus of the course “Sharing tinued to be enriching and conservation science: vers un lan- stimulating partnerships for the gage commun”. Collections Programme, providing In addition to interdisciplinary experiences that can be useful else- communication among conserva- where. A mission to South-East tion professionals, the unit took a Asia has helped to establish new special interest in how to make contacts with national and regional heritage accessible. Conservation organizations active in the sub-re- professionals are learning to at- gion. tract the community’s participa- From both a geographical and a tion by recognizing the thematic point of view, this enlarge- importance of its aspirations and ment of a network of institutional 16 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER to a community. Access to and as- Current projects eration of Conservators-restorers sembly of relevant information CURRIC: Vocational Training Organizations, and seven other from art history, chemistry, man- Curricula for Conservation Scien- partners, ICCROM undertook a agement strategies, and other fields tists is a project funded by the Eu- study aimed at improving legisla- of knowledge are vital and imply ropean Commission’s Leonardo tion for conservation-restoration. the necessity to consciously devel- Programme. In 2001–2003, IC- The project focused on the current op our capacity to communicate CROM and nine European univer- laws in Europe. The report identi- with our colleagues as a team. sities and conservation institutions fies the weaknesses in the existing Communication was, therefore, the will develop a curriculum proposal laws and suggests ways to recog- course’s central theme, and pat- for scientists who wish to specialize nize the role and responsibilities of terns in the ways in which we com- in conservation. Beneficiaries of the conservator-restorer. The proj- municate both with and about this initiative are educational insti- ect was funded by the European heritage could be detected. tutions wishing to propose a post- Commission. Results will be avail- The course was held at CECOR, graduate education programme in able on the ICCROM Web site. the Centro de Conservação de Bens conservation as well as scientists Archives 2001 is a six-week re- Culturais Moveis of the Fine Arts graduated in one of the natural, gional course for Latin America on School at the Federal University of physical and/or applied scientific conservation of collections in li- Minas Gerais, Brazil. Belo Hori- disciplines. In 2001 the project fo- braries and archives, held in Octo- zonte is associated with some of cused on identifying the core topics ber and November 2001 in Brazil’s most significant art of the to be included in the curricula and Santiago, Chile. Its subject is the last 100 years and with colonial on outlining a structure for the preservation challenges posed by World Heritage sites nearby, in- training. It will include further re- the variety of materials present in cluding Diamantina, a beautiful search development stages, three archives and libraries today. The international intermediate meet- growing trend towards digital tech- ings, and a closing meeting at IC- nologies in archives and libraries CROM. calls for strategies that guarantee The Labs TECH project Labora- the preservation of both the tradi- tories on Science and Technology tional and the new materials. for the Conservation of European Generation 2, conceived to build Cultural Heritage is a European In- on the experience of the PREMA frastructure Co-operation Network programme (Preventive Conserva- funded by the European Union tion in Museums in Africa), aims at within the FP5 action of Improving generating educational materials Human Potential (1999–2002). and teaching trainers in the region Detail of a 1926 painting by U Khin The partners of the project, co- for activities on conservation and Maung in oil on metal. The scene depicts Teimi Jataka, a story from the ordinated by the Inter-university management of collections in sub- life of a future Buddha. National Consortium on Science and Tech- Saharan Africa. Museum of Myanmar nology of Materials (INSTM), Uni- In July 2001, ICCROM, EPA and 18th-century colonial village re- versity of Perugia, Italy, are ten PMDA, in partnership with the In- cently named to the List, where the institutions carrying out research in stitute of Archaeology (University course moved for two weeks. conservation. The project, related to College London) and the MST Con- The course was an exercise in CURRIC’s activities, addresses servation-restauration (University collective professional growth. Par- three main topics: efficiency and of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne) or- ticipants explored how the variety usability of research facilities; ganized the first meeting of this of factors to be considered in con- methods and materials for conser- two-year project funded by the servation decision-making is an op- vation; documentation and archiv- Getty Grant Program. The results portunity for innovative problem- ing of data. of the first stage of the project will solving. This approach leads to sus- be a manual on production of tainable conservation solutions in APEL: Acteurs du Patrimoine course materials, sets of pilot teach- bringing our collections alive in our et Législation ing tools, and two workshops in communities. With ECCO, the European Confed- Africa. 18 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Port Vila, Vanuatu, in collaboration Tunisia, has given his high patron- with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre. age. The major funder is UNESCO. Programme for Museum Ecole du Patrimoine Africain Development in Africa (EPA) (PMDA) An example of urushi, Japanese lacquerware. East meets West in In the three years since it was creat- PMDA inaugurated its premises October 2001 at a course in Tokyo. ed, EPA has continued to grow and and its programme in Mombasa, Urushi 2001 to expand its field of activities. Kenya, in August 2000. This was The second international course on Most recently, EPA has: possible thanks to the generous conservation of urushi, Japanese • in association with the Architec- support of the Royal Netherlands lacquerware, continues the dia- ture School of Lomé, won the bid Embassy in Kenya, the British logue between tradition and con- for a rehabilitation project of Council, Kenya, the Norwegian servation as well as between East Porto Novo financed by the Agency for Development Co-oper- and West. The three-week course, World Bank; ation (NORAD), the Swiss Agency in Tokyo in October 2001, offers • finished the third phase of reno- for Co-operation and Development participants the opportunity to ac- vation of the Museum Palaces of (SDC), the Netherlands Ministry of quire basic knowledge of the com- Abomey, financed by the Italian Development Co-operation and the position and behavior of urushi and Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Di- Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), UN- of the principles of traditional care rection of Co-operation through ESCO, BMZ (Germany), and the of urushi objects. UNESCO; National Museum of Kenya. • continued its training activities Activities so far in the field of A mission in South-East Asia in Benin (course for guides fi- museums include: After a brief mission in four of the nanced by French co-operation) • a three-week workshop on turn- ICCROM Member States in the as well as in Burkina Faso (in- ing museums into lively places sub-region (Viet Nam, Thailand, ventory management course fi- that interact with their commu- Cambodia, Myanmar) and in con- nanced by Dutch Co-operation). nities; sultation with regional partners • the tenth PREMA sub-regional and national museums, ICCROM is It is also: course on Preventive Conserva- exploring possibilities of strength- • making an inventory of sites on tion and Care of Collections, to ening existing resources to ensure the coast of Benin in the frame- train 15 museum professionals development of collections conser- work of the UNESCO “Slave in the fundamentals of preven- vation management plans and fu- Route” Study Project; similar tive conservation, documenta- ture training. work is being undertaken by tion, storage, and exhibition; PMDA for the Eastern and • in November 2001, two planning News from regional Southern part of the continent; meetings on children and muse- partners • preparing a conference and a ums and on museum conditions travelling exhibition (called and needs; Pacific Islands Museums AGUDA) about Afro-Brazilian • in December 2001, a Partnership Association (PIMA) heritage funded by the Ford Workshop for Museum Develop- PIMA sixth Workshop, Cultural In- Foundation. ment for museum professionals terpretation of Heritage Sites, was of sub-Saharan Africa who have held on 23–27 July, in Koror, Palau, The EPA Endowment Fund has al- already participated in fundrais- in collaboration with the Palau Di- ready raised about 25 per cent of its ing ventures at their museums. vision of Cultural Affairs and the goal of nearly US$ 2.5 million to en- Belan National Museum. The major sure EPA’s sustainability. France, funder was the World Heritage Italy, and Tunisia have contributed, For more information PIMA: www.pacificislandsmuseum.org Committee of UNESCO. as have the Leventis Foundation, EPA: www.epa-prema.net or contact Patrice Workshop no. 7, Copying of Au- the Béttancourt Foundation, and Simonnet, [email protected]. dio Visual Collection Materials, several individual donors. Mr Zine PMDA: [email protected] will be held December 10–14 in al-Abidine Ben Ali, President of 19 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER THE HERITAGE SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME

Blackhead’s House, in Town Hall Integrated Territorial and Urban Conservation Square, Riga, Latvia. Reconstruction of lost historic monuments is rarely the (ITUC) best choice for heritage management. AFRICA 2009 Technical training for the conservation of riculum review and development building materials, and technologies seminar held at ICCROM in June 2001. At the regional level, ITUC has also:

The programmes and activities of ing concern for cultural heritage • tested approaches to significant ICCROM’s Heritage Settlements into the sustainable management regional problems (e.g. the unit aim to empower managers of territorial and urban heritage. Caribbean risk-preparedness and specialists to preserve human ITUC has adopted a multi-faceted seminar held in the Dominican settlements of heritage value in all strategy to address the accelerat- Republic in January 2001 and their various spatial, architectural, ing economic and social pressures the North-East Europe “Recon- and socio-economic dimensions. on traditional settlements, both ru- struction and Authenticity” The Heritage Settlements unit ral and urban. In close co-opera- meeting in Riga, Latvia, in Oc- contains two distinct programmes, tion with such key partners as tober 2000); Integrated Territorial and Urban UNESCO’s World Heritage Cen- • articulated regional training Conservation (ITUC) and AFRICA tre, the Organization of World strategies (e.g. for Latin Ameri- 2009, and a number of technical Heritage Cities, ICOMOS’ Historic can historic cities, in Quito, in training courses and activities con- Towns Committee, and the World November 2000); cerned with conservation of build- Bank, ITUC has been working to • attempted to strengthen region- ing materials and technologies. clarify and shape the integrated al educational infrastructures conservation message, for dissem- for delivering training (as with Integrated ination through its own scientific the support given the Academy Territorial and network and the varied networks of Cultural Heritage, founded Urban Conservation and distribution channels of its in Vilnius in 1999). (ITUC) partners. In implementing this Risk Preparedness Workshop, Santo Sustainable management of strategy, ITUC has focused its at- Domingo, January 2001. With en- the heritage tention on both international and couragement and support from A ten-year programme established regional activities. the World Heritage Committee, in 1995, ITUC is aimed at integrat- A number of ITUC activities and in collaboration with the Do- carried out within this strategy minican Republic, ICCROM held a over the last year are worth high- week-long risk preparedness sem- lighting; for example, at the inter- inar in Santo Domingo in January national level, the ITUC cur- for 30 administrators, heritage specialists and managers, and civil ICCROM Risk-Preparedness training defence officials from 20 workshop participants are examining the ruins of San Nicola de Bari, Santo Caribbean-region countries. Domingo, the oldest hospital in the New World and one of the objects of The workshop was developed the workshop’s real-life exercises. in response to the devastation 20 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER wrought there by hurricane Georges in 1998, and a plea from the World Heritage Committee to its Advisory Bodies to develop training to improve preparedness. The workshop directed attention to four particular problems in Santo Domingo, in approaches ranging from developing a preparedness plan for the city’s primary muse- and the City of Quito’s municipal Vilnius Town Hall, Lithuania, home to ITUC regional seminars in 1998, 1999, and 2000. The um, the Alcázar de Colon, develop- training arm, ICCROM brought to- Academy of Cultural Heritage, in Vilnius, was ing a maintenance plan for the gether 40 individuals from the four created as a consortium of three Lithuanian universities, with the support of the Lithuanian ruins of San Nicola de Bari (photo main spheres involved with urban Ministry of Culture, to foster cultural training and on page 20), developing a risk map conservation: the development education in Lithuania and the adjacent Baltic states. for a block of urban fabric, to devel- banks and agencies, the historic oping a preparedness plan for the city managers, the heritage special- ed approaches to conservation in Zona Colonial of Santo Domingo it- ists, and the universities and their Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eu- self. heritage programmes. rope and North America. The goal Their conclusions provided both of the meeting was to review ap- a general orientation for urban con- proaches in various regional con- ICCROM views risk-preparedness for historic cities as an essential servation capacity-building in the texts and to draw conclusions part of integrated urban region and a blueprint by which the about the key elements of curricu- conservation, requiring integration individual agencies and institu- la content, and also how best to of concern for heritage into tions present could implement ac- teach such material. existing risk preparedness plans of tivities in their respective spheres ICCROM is exploring how to civil defence agencies. of interest. The conclusions of the communicate the findings of the meeting, which included creation meeting in published form, for the of a permanent forum for discus- benefit of educational institutions Regional Training Strategy for Latin sion of these issues, will be tested world-wide interested in teaching American historic cities, Quito, and updated in an international in this area. Ecuador, October 2000. Quito, seminar to be organized by the Fed- Ecuador, was host to a meeting or- eral University of Bahía, Brazil, in Authenticity and Reconstruction, ganized by ICCROM to finalize a spring 2002. At the same time, the Riga, Latvia, October 2000. The re- regional training strategy for his- city of Quito has initiated efforts to construction of Blackhead’s House toric cities in Latin America. Sup- build a training centre for integrat- in Riga’s Town Hall Square (photo ported by the Organization of ed urban conservation for the An- on page 20) is an example of the po- World Heritage Cities, by the dean region, modelled on CECI in litically inspired—and often pub- World Heritage Committee, and in Brazil. licly supported—reconstruction association with Centro de Conser- efforts now so popular in the newly vação Integrada Urbana e Territori- ITUC curriculum development and independent states of Eastern Eu- al (CECI), at the Federal University review, Rome, Italy, June 2001. As a rope as a part of efforts to find and of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, part of efforts to consolidate les- reinstate symbols of national or cul- sons gained over six years in vari- tural identity. ous ITUC training efforts, Conservation specialists and ad- ICCROM held a three-day curricu- ministrators often oppose such ef- lum review and development sem- forts because the “reconstruction” inar at ICCROM in June, 2001. of lost buildings should be the ex- Sixteen members of the ITUC Ad- ception, not a “norm” to be pur- visory Committee were brought sued at the expense of genuine together from educational pro- heritage and without regard for The Quito meeting grammes concerned with integrat- supporting scientific evidence. 21 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Under the sponsorship of the events, to continuously analyse Latvian National Commission for ITUC training needs in the region UNESCO and with the support of and plan possible responses, and to the World Heritage Fund, ICCROM support network interest in ITUC organized a meeting in Riga, in Oc- discussions and activities. In the tober 2000, which brought together last year, the Academy has pro- one hundred professionals, her- duced three ITUC newsletters (in itage administrators and govern- English and Russian) distributed to ment officials from a dozen participants in regional ITUC activ- The AFRICA 2009 Regional Course held in Porto Novo, Benin, clearly countries to present case studies of ities, and professionals and man- benefited from the previous experience proposed reconstructions: religious agers interested in exploring, in Mombasa, Kenya (see box page 23). The hands-on management planning architecture in Kiev lost in the promoting, and applying integrat- exercise was extended from three to ed approaches. Ultimately, as the eight weeks of the course and incorporated some of the previous ITUC programme draws to a close stand-alone subjects, such as in 2005, ICCROM hopes that the sustainable tourism and partnership and fund-raising. Another improvement Academy can ensure provision of was the full introduction of “moderation” as a teaching technique. integrated territorial and urban This technique provided participants conservation training on a sustain- with a fully participative process which was appreciated by all, and led to able long-term basis in the region. richer discussions. The course also gave an opportunity for AFRICA 2009 to work for the first time in partnership AFRICA 2009 with the Ecole du Patrimoine Africain, Immovable cultural heritage a regional institution created as a A workshop on Dry Stone Masonry result of ICCROM’s PREMA (see box, page 23) was held at the in sub-Saharan Africa programme. World Heritage Site of Great The AFRICA 2009 programme was Zimbabwe, once an important trading centre. Its intricate complex of dry introduced in 1998 at the regional levels. At the regional level, cours- stone walls, extending over nearly 80 meeting of African cultural her- es, seminars, research projects, and hectares, attests the Bantu civilization of the Shona people between the 11th itage professionals held in Abidjan, the improvement of networking are and 15th centuries. Côte d’Ivoire. This programme is a implemented, based on the realiza- 1930s; fragments of the Jewish partnership of ICCROM, the UN- tion that the best way to treat prob- Ghetto of Vilnius, destroyed in the ESCO World Heritage Centre, lems is to work together, share Second World War; and the 17th- CRATerre-EAG, and African cul- ideas, and develop common frame- century Blackhead’s House in Riga. tural heritage organizations. The At the conclusion of the meeting, long-term aim is to improve the In regard to projets situés (below), work at the Kasubi Tombs, Uganda, those present adopted the Riga conditions for the conservation of and James Island, the Gambia, sites Charter, an instrument intended to immovable cultural heritage in consisted of the preparation of management plans and nomination assist administrators ensure recon- sub-Saharan Africa through better dossiers for inscription on the World struction decisions reflect a consen- integrating it into a sustainable de- Heritage List. At both these sites, the work was undertaken in partnership sus among all those with a stake in velopment process. with participants of the 1999 Mombasa course. This allowed for a practical, the future of particular sites. AFRICA 2009 is structured to hands-on follow-up to the course’s take advantage of activities at two management planning exercise. The Academy of Cultural Heritage, in Vilnius, Lithuania. ICCROM has been working through the Acade- my of Cultural Heritage, in Vilnius, Lithuania, to co-ordinate its ITUC activities in north-eastern Europe: to plan and support those semi- nars, training workshops, and meetings comprising the ITUC pro- gramme in the region, to represent ICCROM at regional scientific 22 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER The need for better documentation Uganda, Kondoa Rock Painting exercise, this year involving partici- and inventory methodologies was a site, in Tanzania; James Island, in pants in research, documentation, prominent issue throughout the year. In addition to addressing it within the Gambia; the Asante Traditional condition analysis, and treatment the AFRICA 2009 Regional Course in Buildings, in Ghana; and Agadez tests for the conservation of the Benin (photo opposite), it was the and Zinder, in Niger. façade of one of the most important topic of the programme’s first In addition to funding from IC- architectural monuments in the city, thematic seminar, in Livingstone, CROM, AFRICA 2009 is supported the Scuola Grande di San Marco. Zambia. The seminar brought by financial partners such as NO- The diagnostic survey performed together 20 participants from around the region. The working language of RAD, Sida, the Italian Ministry of by the participants was presented the seminar was English, but several Foreign Affairs Department of De- at the end of the course to public participants came from velopment Co-operation, the authorities for critical review and Francophone and Lusophone Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs will become the basis for active con- countries. Also of note is a Department of International Devel- servation measures for the 500 year- workshop on Dry Stone Masonry opment Co-operation, and the old Renaissance façade. In 2001, the held at Great Zimbabwe. This workshop was conceived and World Heritage Fund. The current course was put on through partner- organized by a former participant in pilot phase of AFRICA 2009 comes ship among ICCROM, the Univer- line with the recommendations of to an end in 2001. To mark the tran- sity Institute of Architecture of the 1999 Directors Seminar. The sition to the next phase, a bilingual purpose of the workshop was to Directors Seminar took place in develop a research agenda for this Mombasa, Kenya, in September important typology of heritage in the sub-region. Documentation was one 2001. At this seminar, the pilot of the key topics along with other phase was reviewed and a draft issues of conservation, and programme for the next phase management. (2002–2005) discussed. Approxi- mately 35 Directors participated in works that can be adapted to spe- this important seminar. cific local needs. Site-level projects are also carried out, to ensure that Technical training AFRICA 2009 is rooted in the reali- for the conservation ties of the field while responding to of building specific needs in terms of training materials, and Technical drawing of the façade of the technologies Scuola Grande di San Marco executed and implementation of conserva- by participants in the 2001 Venice tion activities. stone course. In 2000–2001, AFRICA 2009 in- The Venice stone course creased the number and level of ac- Venice, the Superintendency for En- Venice, Italy, 19 April– tivities being implemented. In vironmental and Architectural 29 June 2001 addition to the 2nd Regional Properties of Venice, the Superin- Course and the Directors Seminar The fourteenth International course tendency for Artistic and Historic (both in Porto Novo, Benin), the on the Technology of Stone Conser- Properties in Venice, the UNESCO programme also implemented a vation, which has been held in Venice Office, and the Private Com- seminar on Documentation and In- Venice, Italy, every two years since mittees for the Safeguarding of ventory in Livingstone, Zambia, its inception in 1976, took place Venice. ICCROM is working to and a research workshop on Dry from 19 April through 29 June 2001. transfer increased responsibility for Stone Masonry in Zimbabwe. It ini- It brought together 20 professionals logistical management of the course tiated a compilation of articles on from all regions of the world to up- to local partners for the next version traditional conservation and main- date scientific, technical and mana- of the course while maintaining its tenance techniques, and continued gerial aspects of the conservation of long-time commitment to ensuring with technical assistance and im- historic stone material. As in the its scientific quality. provement of networking and com- past, the course was an 11-week munication in the region. Projets programme of lectures and discus- situés included Kasubi Tombs, in sions linked to a real-life worksite 23 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER MEETINGSMEETINGS ANDAND EVENTSEVENTS

November 2001 through December 2002 December 2001 The Tomb of King Guézo, in The following is a partial list of meetings and events the Royal Palaces of Abomey, Benin, a World around the world of interest to the conservation Qualitá e beni culturali e Heritage Site community. A complete list is available on the ICCROM ambientali Barletta, Italy Web site. 4–8 December Gestione del patrimonio The touristic historic city: culturale: colloquio sharing culture for the Please send information about future conferences to: internazionale (6) future: conference ICCROM Calendar of Conferences Dott. Maurizio Quagliuolo Bruges, Belgium DRI-Ente Interregionale 17–20 March Via di San Michele, 13 Via E. Filiberto, 17 Mrs Lea Winkler, Conference I-00153 Rome, Italy I-00185 Rome, Italy Secretary Tel.: +39-06-70497920 Tourist Office for Flanders Tel. +39-06-58553372 Fax: +39-06-70497920 Grassmarkt 61 Fax +39-06-58553349 [email protected] B-1000 Brussels Belgium [email protected] [email protected] www.iccrom.org World Heritage Committee www.visitflanders.com/ Meeting conference Helsinki, Finland November 2001 La información al 7–16 December servicios de las Finnish National Commission Stones and eternity. construcciones for UNESCO Religious architecture: Biodeterioration of Havana, Cuba P.O. Box 29 construction and cultural property: 20–22 November SF-00023 Helsinki restoration international conference Centro de la Información de Finland ASS.I.R.C.CO: congress (5th) la Construcción (CICONS) Tel.: +358-9-13417363 (6th) Sydney, Australia 2001 Fax: +358-9-13416980 Rome, Italy 12–14 November Lic. Dora Nisenbaum, [email protected] 18–22 March Vinod Daniel, Head Directora www.minedu.fi/minedu/ ASS.I.R.C.CO Research Centre for Materials CICONS whmeeting Via Nizza, 22 Conservation and the Built Ave Carlos M. de Céspedes y I-00198 Rome Environment 35 Plaza de la Revolución Italy Australian Museum 10600 Ciudad de la Habana [email protected] 6 College St. Cuba March 2002 Sydney NSW 2010 Tel.: +53-7-814934 Australia Fax: +53-7-335585 Tel.: +61-2-93206115 [email protected] Infrared and Raman Users April 2002 Fax: +61-2-93206070 Group (IRUG5): [email protected] international conference Tráfico ilícito de bienes (5th) Strengthening the bond: culturales: taller regional Los Angeles CA, USA science and textiles Musical instruments: (III) 4–8 March Philadelphia, PA, USA toward a new organology Bogotá, Colombia Gary Mattison, Conference 5–6 April Conservation and restoration 26–30 November coordinator North American Textile of cultural properties: La Dirección de Patrimonio The Getty Conservation Conservation: conference and international symposium Ministerio de Cultura Institute symposium (25th) Calle 9, nro. 8-31 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss Tokyo, Japan Bogotá, Colombia Suite 700 National Museum of American 13–15 November Tel.: +57-1-3420984, 2828197 Los Angeles, CA 90049 History Planning Office ext. 27 and 28 USA Behring Center, Room 332 Department of Performing Fax: +57-1-336 1304 [email protected] MRC 668 Arts [email protected] www.getty.edu 14th St. and Constitution Ave 13-43 Ueno Park, Taito-ku Washington, DC 20560-0668 Tokyo 110, Japan USA Tel.: +81-3-38234925 Materials Research Industrial structures: [email protected]. Fax: +81-3-38234854 Society (MRS): fall conservation, change of edu [email protected] meeting use, refurbishment: Boston, MA, USA conference 26–30 November Braunschweig, Germany Paper, books and Chimie de la conservation: MRS Materials Research 6–9 March photographic materials séminaire Society Monika Denzel Melbourne, Australia Montreux–Lausanne, Member services Reisebüro Schmidt 17–19 April Switzerland 506 Keystone Drive Stadtmarkt 17 AICCM symposium 2002 19–23 November Warrendale, PA 15086-7573, D-38300 Wolfenbuttel R. Shervington, J. Holland, A. MAIP USA Germany Leggio Gran-Rue 20 Tel.: +1-724-7793003 Tel.: +49-53-31884251 Australia CH-1820 Montreux, Fax: +1-724-7798313 Fax: +49-53-31884111 [email protected]. Switzerland [email protected] [email protected] au Tel.: +41-21-9653366 www.mrs.org/meetings/ www.ib2002.tu-bs.de [email protected] Fax: +41-21-9653368 fall2001 [email protected]. www.maip.ch au 24 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER May 2002 Preservation in the digital age Association pour la recherche Collections hazards and scientifique sur les arts mitigations graphiques (ARSAG): Montreal, Canada international symposium (4th) 8–13 May Paris, France SPNHC 2002 27–30 May Ingrif Birker Françoise Flieder, Sibylle Redpath Museum Monod McGill University ARSAG 859 Sherbrooke St West 36, rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6 F-75005 Paris July 2002 Glass from Slovakia, a new Canada France Member State (see page 5) Tel.: +1-514-398 4086 ext. Tel.: +33-1-44086995 4094 Fax: +33-1-47076295 Architecture as a resource Fax: +1-514-398 3185 [email protected] Berlin, Germany ICOM-CC 13th Triennial [email protected] 22–29 July Meeting International Union of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Architects (UIA) general 22–28 September The community of June 2002 assembly and XXI World Isabelle Verger museums: seeking the Congress of Architects ICOM-CC Secretariat common good UIA Berlin 2002 Organisation c/o ICCROM Dallas, TX, USA AIC: annual meeting Committee 13, via di San Michele 12–16 May Miami, FL, USA Köpenicker Straße 48/49 I-00153 ROMA American Association of 5–11 June D-10179 Berlin Italy Museums: annual meeting AIC Germany Tel.: +39-06-5855 3410 AAM 1717 K St. NW, Ste 301 Tel.: +49-30-27879912 Fax: +39-06-5855 3349 1575 Eye St. N.W. Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006 Fax: +49-30-27879915 [email protected] Washington, DC 20005 USA [email protected] www.icom-cc.org USA Tel.: +1-202-452 9545 www.uia-berlin2002.com Tel.: +1-202-289 9113 Fax: +1-202-452 9328 [email protected] pmessier@bosart- www.aam-us.org conserv.com October 2002 September 2002 Vernacular domestic Biodeterioration of works Wall and Floor Mosaics: buildings in Venice: of art Works of art on paper, Conservation, conference New York, NY, USA books, documents and Maintenance, Presentation Venice in Peril 13–15 June photographs: techniques 8th Conference of the Venice, Italy Art, biology and conservation and conservation International Committee for 17 May 2002 Baltimore, MD, USA the Conservation of Mosaics Morley House Dr. Robert J. Koestler 1–6 September (ICCM) 314-322 Regent Street The Sherman Fairchild Center IIC Congress 2002 Thessaloniki, Greece London W1R 5AB The Metropolitan Museum of IIC 29 October–3 November UK Art 6 Buckingham Street Prof. Demetrios Michaelides Tel.: +44-020-7636 6138 1000 Fifth Avenue London WC2N 6BA ICCM President Fax: +44-020-7636 6139 New York, NY 10028-0198 UK University of Cyprus [email protected] USA Fax: +44-20-79761564 Archaeological Research Unit Tel.: +1-212-570 3859 [email protected] Kallipoleos 75, P.O Box 537 Fax: +1-212-5703859 www.iiconservation.org 1678 Nicosia L’art avant l’histoire: [email protected] Cyprus conservation of prehistoric Fax: +357-2-474-658 art Medieval and later [email protected] SFIIC Study Days (10th) Visibility of restoration, archaeology: international Paris, France legibility of art works conference (3rd) 23–24 May Paris, France Basel, Switzerland From landscape past to Secrétariat de la SFIIC 13–15 June 10–15 September landscape future 29 rue de Paris ARAAFU conference (5th) Medieval Europe Basel 2002 Tel Aviv, Israel F-77420 Champs-sur-Marne Natalie Richard c/o Archäologische 6–10 October France Secrétariat Colloque ARAAFU Bodenforschung Institute of Landscape Tel.: +33-1-60377797 7 rue du Pot de fer Petersgraben 11 Architects (IFLA): world Fax: +33-1-60377799 F-75005 Paris P.O.B congress (39th) [email protected] France CH-4001 Basel Dan Knassim Ltd www.fnet.fr/sfiic Tel.: +33-1-43314369 Switzerland P.O. Box 1931 Fax: +33-1-43314369 Fax: +41-61-267-2376 52118 RAMAT-GAN [email protected] [email protected] Israel www.ifrance.com/assoc www.mebs-2002.org Tel.: +972-3-613340 A view of Sarajevo. Bosnia Fax: +972-3-613341 and Herzogovina is a new [email protected] ICCROM Member State (see Indoor Air Quality and Towards a better built www.congress.co.il page 5). Climate: international environment: innovation, conference (9th) sustainability, information Monterey, CA, USA technology The intangible heritage 30 June–5 July Melbourne, Australia Harare, Zimbabwe Indoor air 2002 11–13 September 13–16 October Conference Secretariat International Association for ICOMOS General Assembly USA Bridge and Structural Pauline Alphen Tel.: +1-831-4260148 Engineering (IABSE) ICOMOS International Fax: +1-831-4266522 symposium Secretariat [email protected] Symposium Secretariat 49-51 rue de la Fédération www.indoorair2002.org IABSE 2002 Symposium F-75015 Paris Melbourne France ETH Hönggerberg Tel.: +33-1-45676770 CH-8093 Zurich Fax: +33-1-45660622 Switzerland [email protected] Fax: +41-1-6331241 www.icomos.org www.iabse.ethz.ch/ conferences/melbourne 25 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Architecture subject of a monograph written to the same RECENTRECENT specifications, in turn Sustained care of the analysed by a philosopher, cultural heritage against an artist and a sociologist: pollution. Based on the the Transformation of seminar entitled “Sustained care of the cultural heritage Historical Monuments and LIBRARYLIBRARY against deterioration due to Problems Involved in their pollution and other similar Reutilisation (Philippe Nys); factors: evaluation, risk Artistic Monuments and management and public Projects: the Contemporary awareness”. Strasbourg: Relationship historical ACQUISITIONSACQUISITIONS Council of Europe areas (Raoul Marek); Socio- Publishing, 2000. 230 pp. political Approach to the ISBN 92-871-4233-5 Reutilisation of the Heritage Although most European in Europe (Anne-Marie The ICCROM library is pleased to countries have national, Autissier). regional, and local highlight some of the works that strategies and action plans, were acquired in the past year few keep a constant check on the effectiveness of the and that are available for conservation methods or Conservation consultation. develop long-term plans. These 18 articles provide techniques several case studies of Adobe Archaeology conservation of buildings, Proceedings of the International conference, Seismic stabilization of Loot, Legitimacy and stone sculpture, and metal Lacona III: Lasers in the historic adobe structures: Ownership: The Ethical threatened by pollution. Conservation of Artworks final report of the Getty Crisis in Archaeology. Colin Also available in French. III, April 26–29, 1999, Seismic Adobe Project. E. Renfrew. London: Florence, Italy. Renzo Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Duckworth, 2000. 160 pp. Salimbeni and Giorgio Frederick A. Webster, and ISBN 0715630342 Preserving Post-War Bonsanti, eds. Journal of William Ginell. Los Angeles: High demand from Heritage: The Care and Cultural Heritage, vol. 1, J. Paul Getty Trust museums and art collectors Conservation of Mid- Supplement 1, 2000. 273 pp. Publications, 2000. (GCI poses a constant threat to Twentieth Century ISSN 1296-2074 Scientific Program Reports) Architecture. Susan The use of laser cleaning in 200 pp. ISBN 0-89236-587-0 archaeological finds, but MacDonald, ed. Donhead when finds lose their the conservation and This book describes the Saint Mary: Donhead restoration of cultural tests performed on models context, through Publishing, 2001. 235 pp. clandestine or poorly ISBN 1-873394-35-7 property is arousing of adobe buildings to interest thanks to the evaluate the techniques for supervised excavation, More than 300 buildings essential information is and sculptures have been results obtained in removal verifying damage due to of deteriorated layers with earthquakes that can be destroyed and illicit added to the list of trafficking is encouraged. buildings of architectural or great precision and respect applied to historical adobe for the original surfaces. structures. The three-year The most important historical interest in the UK. contribution of archaeology, These 17 papers from a This volume contains 52 programme, part of the lectures in English grouped Getty Seismic Adobe the author explains, is the 1998 conference on information that supervised conservation of by the materials dealt with: Project, was devised to stone, metal and glass, develop and test minimal, and well-documented contemporary architecture excavations provide. since the Second World painted surfaces, paper, economical, and easy parchment, wood, and a methods for protecting the War treat: the historical context and the framework natural-history collection. A structures from section is devoted to earthquakes. of protection, and structural and material diagnostic methods based Accueil, aménagement et on spectroscopy and gestion dans les grands problems (concrete, sites, Arles, 18, 19 and 20 reinforced concrete, curtain lasers. mars 1999. Cahiers de la walls, glass). Several UK section française de and US case studies are l’ICOMOS 21. Paris: Section presented. française de l’ICOMOS, 2000. Glass 244 pp. Growing numbers of Jornadas nacionales sobre visitors impede protection La réutilisation culturelle et restauración y conservación of archaeological or natural artistique des monuments de vidrios, La Granja de San historiques en Europe : Ildefonso, 30 de sites. How can the sites be synthèses de l’étude et septiembre–2 de octubre de managed so as to continue extraits des actes du 1999. José Maria Fernandez to receive visitors and colloque (Château Savelli, Navarro and Paloma Pastor encourage local economic Italie, 1998). Paris: Rey De Vinas, eds. N.p.: development, and yet not Association des centres Fundación Centro Nacional be the victims of their own culturels de rencontre, 1999. del Vidrio, 2000. 204 pp. success? Nineteen 139 pp. ISBN 2-9514989-0-X ISBN 84-88044-17-8 practical operations are The study, by the European The 13 lectures of this discussed, including Petra Cultural Centre Network in symposium on the (Jordan), Hadrian’s Wall Historical Monuments and conservation and (UK), the Pont du Gard the Association des centres restoration of glass and (France), Val d’Aosta (Italy), culturels de rencontre, stained glass cover: and Camargue (France). concerns new uses of maintenance and historical monuments for restoration of glass contemporary projects. collections in museums, One hundred places causes of deterioration in selected throughout glass (biodeterioration and Europe have each been the air pollution), the state of

ICCROM•NEWSLETTER preservation and Movable objects Museology Sculpture restoration of stained glass, conservation of glass in architecture, conservation Religious Objects: Be Prepared: Guidelines for Le minbar de la mosquée of enamelled ceramic, Preservation and Care. Small Museums for Writing a Kutubiyya. Jonathan M. conservation of Colombe Harvey, Colette Disaster Preparedness Plan. Bloom, Ahmed Toufiq, Naud, Isabelle Paradis, and Canberra: Heritage Stefano Carboni, et al. New chandeliers. Claude Payer. Québec: Collections Council, 2000. York: Metropolitan Museum Fondation du patrimoine 112 pp. ISBN 0-642-75097-1 of Art, 1998. 114 pp. ISBN religieux du Québec, 2001. A well-written disaster- 84-86022-96-7 112 pp. ISBN 2-551-21319-3 preparedness plan is In 1998, after a long Legislation In 1995, the Quebec essential for museums. 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Topics include: the Held at Damascus Conservation must become reinforced, its weak definition and identification University, 16-19 September an integral part of any elements consolidated or of buildings, protection and 1996. Elias Zayat and Mat library or archive, and, replaced, and its surface conservation, the Immerzeel, eds. Leiden: though administered by decoration cleaned. philosophy of conservation, Research School for African, specialists, must be legal protection and Asian and Amerindian understood and supported Studies, 2000. 219 pp. ISBN sanctions, integrated 90-5789-040-2 by all. Aided by experts, the conservation, financing, the The 13 presentations from editors review institutional Stone role of specialised agencies the meeting that launched conservation programmes. and organisations, co-operation in They also address the new Tendre comme la pierre. La education and training. horizons of the pierre : l’avenir du passé. documentation, Patrimoine bâti : guide pour conservation, and the conservation of electronic and digital media. la restauration et l’entretien study of art in Syria des monuments en région between the universities of Centre. Orléans : Région Metal Damascus and Leiden Centre, Université d’Orléans, address: documentation, 2000. 116 pp. Fontes, fers et aciers dans conservation, and Photography This book provides the l’architecture: étude, protection of collections; basic ideas on détection et conservation Les collections maintenance of tuffeau des métaux ferreux dans les restoration of icons with photographiques : guide de bâtiments, Nancy, 16–17 et Egyptian models; conservation préventive. limestone, the sedimentary 18 novembre 1995. Cahiers restoration of mural Bertrand Lavédrine, Jean- rock used for many de la section française de paintings in Syria and Paul Gandolfo, and Sibylle buildings of the Loire l’ICOMOS 17. Paris: Section Lebanon. English and Monod. Paris: Association Valley, which includes française de l’ICOMOS, 1997. Arabic bilingual text. pour la recherche scientifique Chartres, Orléans, and 142 pp. sur les arts graphiques, 2000. Bourges. Because of rapid Long concealed from view, 312 pp. ISBN 2-9516103-0-0 weathering, its the use of iron in Research on the conservation has become a architecture has often been conservation of matter of primary neglected. It was first used photographs has importance. After a first visibly and with elegance in progressed over the last 30 part on the stone of the 19th century. In these years, so that it is now France’s Centre region, the proceedings of a possible to understand phenomena of deterioration conference held to help their fragility and how to are addressed, along with rehabilitate metal conserve them. 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Bordeaux: 27 ICCROM•NEWSLETTER Université Michel de processes, repairs and embroideries), carpets, and Town planning Montaigne, Centre de restoration, and ground tapestries. The appendix recherche en physique maintenance. Six case contains a glossary of appliquée à l’archéologie, studies are presented, and terms defined by CIETA Die orientalische Stadt im 1999. 368 pp. ISBN 2-86781- six appendices provide an (The International Centre islamischen Vorderasien und 244-5 inventory of classified for the Study of Ancient Nordafrika. 2 vols. Eugen These proceedings include Wirth. Mainz: Verlage Philipp cemeteries and standard Textiles). Catalan and von Zabern, 2000. 584 pp., 46 articles, in English and documentation forms for Spanish bilingual text. French, chosen from the 70 168 plates. ISBN 3-8053- the preparation of a 2709-9 lectures or posters conservation plan and one presented. Art historians, This is an exhaustive work for a survey of on the physical and social archaeologists, architects, deterioration. Theory conservators and restorers, structure of the Islamic physicists, chemists, and The Invention of the Historic cities of western Asia and geologists shared their Monument. Françoise northern Africa. After an experiences in linking Choay. Cambridge: introduction on the origin archaeometry and Cambridge University Press, of the town in these archaeology and 2001. 247 pp. ISBN 0-521- regions, the author 45474-3 provides a detailed study improvement in physical This study, the English methods for characterising of: the function of the translation of the French town, its economy, the rocks. The articles are L’allégorie du patrimoine, grouped under three different types of traces Western thought settlement, open-air headings: seriation and from the Renaissance to origin; deterioration, spaces (squares, gardens, the present and the cemeteries), planning and restoration, conservation; growing awareness of the ancient technologies and redevelopment (including existence of vestiges of the the problems of the circulation of raw past, especially materials and of works. rehabilitation). The text is monuments from classical amply illustrated with antiquity and the great drawings, a separate Conservation of historic Romanesque and Gothic volume of illustrations, and graveyards. Ingval Maxwell, structures. The author four fold-out maps. Ratish Nanda, and Dennis analyses the concept of Urquhart. Edinburgh: the “historical monument” Historic Scotland. Technical over more than five Conservation, Research and centuries In the 19th Education Division, 2001. 180 century, such architects pp. (Guide for practitioners Textiles and thinkers as Ruskin, 2) ISBN 1-900168-74-XX Viollet-le-Duc, Riegl, and After a brief historical Andrinople, le rouge magnifique : de la teinture à Boito developed theories introduction to the on how to preserve these development of burial sites l’impression, une cotonnade à la conquête du monde. buildings for posterity. in Scotland, this guide Musée de l’impression sur examines the technical étoffes. Paris: Editions de La matters relating to the Martinière, 1995. 159 pp. Conserver ou restaurer : les conservation and ISBN 2-73-242135-9 dilemmes du patrimoine. maintenance of Scottish In the second half of the Camillo Boito. Besançon: les cemeteries from the post- 18th century, the French Editions de l’Imprimeur, Reformation period. Topics textile industry tried to 2000. 111 pp. ISBN 2-910735- include legislation on discover the secret behind 45-1 property rights and the oriental dyes known as This is the first French responsibilities, the various andrinople, or Turkish red, translation of the book types of tombs and made from madder plants. Conservare o restaurare monuments, their materials This amply illustrated work (Conserve or Restore) and deterioration introduces the industry and written by Boito in 1893, in its context, the chemistry, which he summarises his the chemists, the experience in restoring manufacture of textiles, buildings. The debate on and the designers who turn whether to conserve simple cotton fabrics into historical monuments masterpieces. scrupulously or to restore and transform them, which began in England at the Restauración y conservación end of the 18th century, de tejidos/Restauració i was embodied by the two conservació de teixits. antagonists Ruskin and Carmen Maseu and Luz Viollet-le-Duc. Boito Morata. Terrassa: Centre de opened the way to a third, Documentació i Museu philological, approach. Also Téxtil, 2000. 198 pp. ISBN 84- 921199-4-2 include are texts by This work explains the Prosper Mérimée, on the techniques and chemicals Cathedral of Strasbourg, used for conservation, and and Viollet-le-Duc, on the methodology used in restoration in Italy. the cleaning process, the consolidation and sewing together of various types of textiles, including Egyptian and Coptic archaeological textiles, costumes (decorative dresses and

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