International Institute For Conservation - Conferences

Conferences

In 1961, with the help of a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation, the IIC held its first international conference. That meeting, in Rome, was attended by 150 people, and the papers were published by Butterworths under the title Recent Advances in Conservation. Subsequently, conferences have been held at two- or three-year intervals with published preprints on a topic of current interest. Past conferences are:

• Recent Advances in Conservation (Rome 1961)
• Textile Conservation (Delft 1964)
• Museum Climatology (London 1967)
• Stone and Wooden Objects (New York 1970)
• Paintings and the Graphic Arts (Lisbon 1972)
• Archaeology and the Applied Arts (Stockholm 1975)
• Wood in Painting and the Decorative Arts (Oxford 1978)
• Conservation Within Historic Buildings (Vienna 1980)
• Science and Technology (Washington 1982)
• Adhesives and Consolidants (Paris 1984)
• Cleaning, Retouching and Coatings (Brussels 1990)
• Stone and Wall Paintings (Bologna 1986)
• Far Eastern Art (Kyoto 1988)
• Iberian and Latin American Cultural Heritage (Madrid 1992)
• Preventive Conservation (Ottawa 1994)
• Archaeological Conservation and its Consequences (Copenhagen 1996)
• Painting Techniques: History, Materials and Studio Practice (Dublin 1998)
• Tradition and Innovation: Advances in Conservation (Melbourne 2000)
• Works of Art on Paper. Books, Documents and Photographs. Techniques and Conservation (Baltimore 2002)
• Modern Art: New Museums (Bilbao 2004)
• The Object in Context: Crossing Conservation Boundaries (Munich 2006)
• Conservation and Access (London 2008)
• Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean (Istanbul 2010)
• The Decorative: Conservation and the Applied Arts (Vienna 2012)