Konserveringsstudiet:

• Tine Frøysaker, PhD, Professor

• Jeremy Hutchings, PhD, Førsteamanuensis

• Douwtje van der Meulen, MA(2), Universitetslektor

• Duncan Slarke, MA (20% stilling)

• Noëlle Streeton, PhD, Førsteamanuensis

Konservering

• Bakgrunn: mangfold

• Arbeidet er en blanding av praksis grunnlagt i

arkeologi, historie, kunsthistorie, kjemi og

håndverk.

• Undervisning og forskning er tverrfaglig.

Konserveringsstudiet

• problemstillinger og utfordringer for

programmet

• ambisjoner i nærmeste fremtid

Big challenge for Conservation Studies:

visibility

• Within IAKH, Conservators are clearly

different from our colleagues in Archaeology

and History.

• In this institute, we seem to be easy to forget.

Vitenskapsakademiet, Drammensveien

Issues for the programme:

Possible solutions for this visibility ‘problem’

Improving visibility for students and staff:

– IAKH

– UiO

– beyond

Objects and Beliefs in Norway, ca. 800‒1535

Working group convened by Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Noëlle Streeton

X-ray, relief from Slagen altarpiece, c. 1460, KHM C.2124

Existing efforts: IAKH

members from three disciplines of IAKH, plus IFIKK and KHM

meetings once per month

day-long workshop in November 2012

Research education groups

• The Objects and Beliefs group has been merged

(more or less) with the research group for PhD

fellows/researchers working on topics between Late

Antique and Medieval period.

• Kristin Kausland, the first PhD fellow in

Conservation, will join both the Late Antique to

Medieval research group, and the Archaeology

group.

• Munch Aula Project

• Academic Demarcations: Disciplines and

Interdisciplinarity (co‐hosted by KULTRANS and the

Department of Educational Research, 13–14

September 2012)

Visibility: UiO

• Our students, BA and MA students, appreciate hearing

about current events / developments

• They understand interdisciplinarity between history,

archaeology and the physical sciences from an early stage

Interdisciplinary research

impact on teaching

KUBE (Kulturarv og bevaringskunnskap )

New programme. First uptake 2009

• KONS1000 Intro to conservation and collections care

• KONS2010 History and theory of conservation

• KONS2060 Management of cultural heritage

• KONS2040 Introduction to painting technology

• KONS2061 Understanding the indoor climate in museums, galleries and archives

• KONS2070 University of Oslo Summer School in Conservation of Theatre Sceneries

• KONS3020 Environmental dangers to cultural heritage

• KONS3021 Control of environment and climate

• KONS3030 Technology of objects (ceramic and metal)

• KONS3040 Advanced painting technology

• KONS3061 Preservation of archaeological materials in different soil conditions

Chemistry

• KUBE students must also take Chemistry.

• Those who wish to apply for the MA (KUBE students and

those taking conservation as ‘enkelte emner’) must take

inorganic and organic chemistry.

• Those students who do not do a Conservation MA often

stay in a Cultural Heritage sector.

• Acquainted with conservation issues.

Visibility in Europe and internationally

International courses

• KONS1000 Intro to conservation and collections care

• KONS2010 History and theory of conservation

• KONS2060 Management of cultural heritage

• KONS2040 Introduction to painting technology

• KONS2061 Understanding the indoor climate in museums, galleries and archives

• KONS2070 University of Oslo Summer School in Conservation of Theatre Sceneries

• KONS3020 Environmental dangers to cultural heritage

• KONS3021 Control of environment and climate

• KONS3030 Technology of objects (ceramic and metal)

• KONS3040 Advanced painting technology

• KONS3061 Preservation of archaeological materials in different soil conditions

Advantage of KUBE programme

• BA students understand the ways that

conservation fits into academic and professional

environments (e.g., university, museum).

• BA provides theoretical and ethical training to

prepare students for an intense (and less visible)

period of practical training (MA).

• MA training programme since 2005.

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Norway: National museums, Oslo; Norsk Folkemuseum; NIKU; UiO Kulturhistorisk Museum,

Arkeologisk Museum, Stavanger, Tromsø Museum

Europe: National Gallery of Denmark; National Museum of Denmark; Copehagen;

Livrustkammaren, Skoklosterslott, and Hallwylska Museum, Stockholm; Belgian Royal Institute

for Cultural Heritage, Brussels; Museum of Art and History, Geneva; The Mauritshuis, The

Hague; Universitätt für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge;

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Tate Modern, London; Royal Armouries, Leeds; National Museum

of Wales, Cardiff

North America: National Museum of Canada, Ottawa; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Feedback from host institutions:

Hosts are highly impressed with the level of training and the maturity of these students, nearly

all/all of whom have found work in a conservation capacity on completion of their MA.

These students help to strengthen research links for Conservation Studies.

Conservation MA students: public face for Conservation Studies, and the University.

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Visibility in Europe and internationally

• PhD colloquium

Visibility in Europe and internationally

• International Summer School – Fredrikshald Theatre, Halden

Momentum

By continuing to do what we are already

doing, our invisibility within the department

will change of its own accord.

Ambitions in the near future

• More space

• KUBE students do not sit in Frederiksgate

and currently do not have access to the

Conservation Library – because it is in the

laboratory

• Wish-list: space for KUBE students to see all

stages of a conservation education: BA, MA,

PhD

Another project-based PhD stipend

• We won a HF-funded PhD stipend last year. Kristin

Kausland was hired to contribute to my project: After

the Black Death, Painting and Polychrome Sculpture

in Norway, 1350-1550

• We would like another PhD fellow for conservation-

based Munch research, supervised by Tine

Frøysaker

• Currently seeking private funding

Long-term amibition: expansion

Current MA programmes for painting and object conservation: – 6 students on each (total 12) uptake every 2 years

– 4 Project-Based MA students, uptake every 2 years

Expand to train paper conservators.

Training: to conserve paper-based archival sources and photographic documentation.

Digitization of original source material relies on the survival of the original.

This aim would directly benefit historians.

Questions?