The School of Conservation receives a grant for international networking
A new grant for the School of Conservation will support networking with the leading North American museum and conservation institution, the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute in Washington DC.
The Head of Subject, Mikkel Scharff and Assistant Professor Cecil Krarup Andersen have received the grant from the Agency for Research and Innovation from the International Network Programme fund. It is worth DKK 210,000.
The grant will be used to establish a network between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute in Washington DC.
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The network will result in the organisation of an international scientific conference on the latest research in the field of structural painting conservation: for example, focusing on less energy-intensive climate solutions in museums. The conference will take place in autumn 2016.
For many years, the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute has played a major role in terms of research into the degree of tolerance, which paintings have, in relation to changes in circumstances such as humidity and temperature. The Institute conducts research for all the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC.
