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Housed,
preserved and cared for
Monica Gustafsson
Abstract
This article discusses the
misinterpretation that keeping or owning the cultural heritage is preserving
it for the future. From documents like the European Preventive Conservation
Strategy, ICOM code of ethics for museums and the Swedish national law
for protection of the cultural heritage we can suspect a confusion about
conservation expressed in terms lika housed, preserved and cared for.
If we instead try to understand the meaning of preserving for the future
we must define it as adequately housed, conserved and documented. By
using this definition even the user of the cultural heritage will have
an active role and can take part in the preservation process. The articel
also suggests that instead of preservationplans we can make userplans.
Monuments, objects or collections should have a userplan. These userplans
should be written by conservators and documentalists in cooperation
with the user. In that way the cultural heritage will be associated
with living communities and be preserved for the future.
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Archaeological
conservation – part of archaeology
Sara Wranne
Abstract
A point of departure is a
modification of the legislation relating to cultural heritage management
in Sweden made 1997 to make Swedish contract archaeology more efficient.
There was a need to create a better balance between the production,
conservation and maintenance of finds from investigations, but also
to define, more distinctly, the responsibilities of the different actors
in the contract archaeology enterprise. In Swedish contract archaeology
and in accordance to the requirements of the Act concerning Ancient
Monuments and Finds, the contractor has to provide for the cost of the
archaeological investigation. The modifications from 1997 mean that
the contractor has to provide for the costs of conservation as well.
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A
wreck on the way
Eva Ernfridsson, Ebba Samuelsson,
Sara Wranne
Abstract
During the construction of
a road tunnel in central Gothenburg in 2001 the wreck from a small boat
was found. The boat was originally about 11 meters long and it has been
dated to the beginning of the 1660ies. The archaeological investigation
and the excavation was carried out by the Swedish National Heritage
Board and financed by The Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA).
Conservators from SVK participated in the excavation and packed and
labelled the finds for transport to preliminary conservation facilities
in the north of Gothenburg. The boat parts were stored in water in large
especially constructed tanks for about one year awaiting the decision
about conservation. The water was shifted regularly in order to increase
the dissolution of iron from the wood and to control biological growth.
For cleaning toothbrush and large amounts of water was used. A full
scale digital documentation was carried out which later will be used
to reconstruct the boat digitally. It has now been made clear that SNRA
will pay for the conservation and that the Maritime Museum of Gothenburg
will be responsible for future exhibition and preservation of the boat.
Recently the boat was moved to new, especially designed facilities in
Gothenburg where the impregnation of the wood with PEG has started and
later freeze drying will take place.
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Antiquarian
compensation to the Swedish Church, maintenance plans
Lotti Benjaminson
Abstract
The Swedish Church ceased
to be the Swedish Public Church in the year of 2000. Despite the independence
it is the Swedish government that decides how to maintain and preserve
all church buildings and objects. As a compensation to the Church the
government contributes economically (1910 m kr) between the year of
2002 and 2009 for such work. To get this support the Church has to do
long-range maintenance planning and assess the damages.
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A pulpit
fall from the church of Särö
Anne-Marie Ro
Abstract
A pulpit fall belonging to
the church of Särö was delivered to SVK for restoration. It was produced
at Licium in Stockholm 1936 by Greta Olde-Holmberg. The textile is made
of yellow silk damask which, especially at the bottom and the top, was
very deteriorated and damaged. The damages in the upper part of the
textile were hidden by a pair of disfiguring metal ribbons. The lining
and metal ribbons were loosened and the pulpit fall was vaccum cleaned
very gently. The textile was laminated from the back against a polyester
net (Tetex) for support and the damaged parts were secured with stitches.
Finally the lining was replaced.
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Restoration
of a black chasuble made of silkvelvet
Kerstin Ljungkvist
Abstract
Chasubles made of red or
black velvet decorated with gold or silver is part of the belongings
of many churches in Sweden. The first ones were made in the middle of
the 18th century. They became very popular and were the only kind made
during the 19th century. In the spring of 2002 a chasuble belonging
to the church in Värö, Halland was restored at the textile unit at SVK.
It was made of black silkvelvet with trimmings and decorations in silver.
At the upper part of the chasuble the trimmings were deformed and had
partly come loose, the silver was broken, and the pile of the velvet
as well as the lining was worn.
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Museums,
Archives, Libraries and conservation
Linda Sundin
Abstract
The basis of this article
is a fundamental belief in the advantages of developing much closer
links between museums, archives and libraries, through the development
of crosssectoral working. Based upon this new holistic approach the
article works its way from a historical retrospect, through interpreting
political documents, down to the key issues: what is the Studio of the
Western Sweden Conservators´ mission and how can we implement it in
our conservation activity.
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Seminar
on collection surveys of museum objects
Martin Ericson
Abstract
The goal of the seminar was
to present and discuss different surveying tools designed by local and
international cultural institutions.
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Attributing
Painted Wall-hangings
Ingalill Nyström
Abstract
This article discusses attributions
of Southern Sweden painted wall-hangings. The difficulties with attributions
are illustrated by a wall-hanging from Blekinge Museum that SVK conserved
during 2002. The article suggests that the material knowledge of the
conservator could be used as a complement to the knowledge of ethnologists
and art historians in the attribution.
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News
from the department for documentation and analysis
Eva Ernfridsson
Abstract
The activities of the department
for documentation and analysis during 2002 focused on increasing the
knowledge about scientific analyses on cultural heritage material, among
the employees as SVK as well as among colleagues and commissioners.
The network of collaborators in the field of analysis was enlarged through
very interesting visits at other laboratories, for example at Canadian
Conservation Institute in Ottawa. In addition the build up of a database
concerning laboratories and analyses of relevance to cultural heritage
material was started.
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Conservation
science 2002-report from the holder of SVK´s scholarship
Eva Ernfridsson
Abstract
As the holder of SVK´s scholarship
I attended a conference arranged by the Institute of Conservation Science
(ICS) 22–24 May 2002. The name of the conference was Conservation Science
2002 and it took place at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh.
The aims of ICS are to promote the understanding of conservation science
and to present its needs and achievements to others. The Edinburgh conference
was visited by conservators, scientists and conservation scientists
from all over the world. The discourses was disposed in three parts:
preventive conservation, conservation methods and non-destructive testing.
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