This dissertation is an account of an internship in paper
conservation undertaken at the Auckland City Art Gallery
during the period July 1982 to March 1983.
It opens with a description of the organisation and
functions of the gallery, with particular reference to
its management, staffing, financing, displays and
acquisition procedures.
This is followed, in Part 2, by a general account of the
conservation department, its history, staffing, laboratory
and tasks.
Part 3 details all the conservation work undertaken during
the period of internship. It describes the various
techniques and procedures employed and the results achieved
or observed. It contains a list of 119 objects treated
followed by 26 case studies to illustrate the problems
encountered and the action taken. It also includes a
list of the equipment and materials used.
Set out in Part 4 are details of conservation laboratories
visited in Wellington.
Part 5, after a brief description of conservation services
in Christchurch and Dunedin, details the activities of the
Interim Committee for the Conservation of Cultural Property
and the principal recommendations contained in a report
submitted by Dr Nathan Stolow, a conservation consultant
engaged by the Interim Committee. This is followed by a
report on the New Zealand Conservators' Meeting which took
place in Wellington in March 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219312 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Seager, Christopher Philipp, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Applied Science |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Christopher Philipp Seager |
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