Invited Speakers
These are our invited speakers for this meeting. For their contribution to it in specific, and in general for museums, cultural heritage and society, our recognition. Thank you very much!
Agnes Brokerhof
SENIOR CONSERVATION SCIENTIST AND CONSULTANT @
HERITAGE LABORATORY OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AGENCY OF THE NETHERLANDS IN AMSTERDAM
The developments during two decades of risk management
Agnes area of expertise is value management, risk management and preventive conservation. From 2003-2013 she was one of the organizers and teachers in the ICCROM-CCI-RCE courses ‘Reducing risks to Collections’ and still teaches courses and workshops on risk management in the Netherlands and abroad. She applies the principles of risk-based decision making in her consultancy to collection managers such as guiding them through the process of setting priorities for collection care and developing lighting policies.
Sarah VanSnick
LEAD PREVENTIVE CONSERVATOR @
THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM IN LONDON
In-case LED lighting: a risk management case study at the V&A
Sarah has a BA History from the University of London and graduated from Fleming College’s Collections Conservation and Management programme in 2007, becoming an ICON accredited conservator in 2014. She previously worked at The National Archives, UK, specialising in conservation research and preventive conservation and has an interest in the application and delivery of risk management in conservation.
Sandra Kisters
HEAD OF COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH @
MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN IN ROTTERDAM
Managing expectations. How to combine public and conservation functionalities in an open storage facility. The case of the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Sandra Kisters is Head of Collections and Research at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam since 2015. Previously, she taught art history at VU University Amsterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University. She received her PhD at VU University in 2010, resulting in the book The Lure of the Biographical. On the (Self-)Representation of Modern Artists, which was awarded the Karel van Mander Prize in 2020 and the AICA award of 2018. Kisters was closely involved in the realisation of the recently opened Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, as well as related programs such as the digitizing of the film- and video collection, the preparation and move of the art collection, and the development of the conservation and restoration studios. Kisters edited a book about the Depot, and published about the concept of the Depot in an issue of Museum International about Museum Collection Storage (2021), and a new article about the unease between display and conservation in Oase 111 (2022), a magazine of Ghent University.
Nobuyuki Kamba
FREELANCE CONSERVATOR WITH A MISSION TO PRESERVE THE DIGNITY OF THE OBJECT, THE AUTHOR AND THE OWNER
Protecting museum objects from the threat of natural disasters
Nobuyuki Kamba was born in Japan in 1954. He has a BS in physics at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1977 and obtained a MA in conservation science at postgraduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1979. He obtained his PhD based on his research into microclimate control at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1997 while he was working at National Museum of Japanese History as an associate professor. He started his career as a conservator at the conservation studio of Sokei School of Fine Art in Tokyo for five years, then became an associate research fellow of the Museum Science Department of National Museum of Japanese History in Chiba Pref. in 1984 and became an associate professor in 1992. He did fundamental researches about museum climate, transport, and scientific analysis of museum objects. Since 1998 he had been head of the conservation section at the Tokyo National Museum from 1998 to 2015. He practiced practical conservation by utilizing his experiences and experiments. During 1985 he joined International Center of Conservation in Rome as a research fellow by obtaining UNESCO Fellowship. In 1989 he went to Courtauld Institute of London University as a research fellow of Japanese Ministry of Education for one year. He has been focusing on preventive conservation in the museum and the practical conservation for the museum objects. Current research includes establishment of primary care system for museum objects, and development of disaster preparedness. He is a member of the Japan Society for the Conservation of Cultural Properties, International Institute for Conservation, International Council of Museums. He wrote many articles concerning conservation science.
Jonathan Ashley-Smith
INDEPENDENT TEACHER, RESEARCHER AND CONSULTANT IN THE FIELD OF CULTURAL HERITAGE RISK
Risk management and uncertainty: how wrong can you get?
Jonathan studied chemistry to post-doctoral level at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge. He worked as a metalwork conservator and analytical scientist from 1973-1977 at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London. Between 1977 and 2002 he was Head of Conservation at the V&A. In 1994 he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to study risk methodologies, resulting in the book Risk Assessment for Object Conservation, published in 1999. In 2000 he was awarded the Plowden medal for his contribution to the conservation profession. He was Secretary-General of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC) 2003-2006. He was Visiting Professor in the Conservation Department of the Royal College of Art, London from 2000-2010. Between 2009 and 2014 he was project leader for the damage and risk assessment module of the EC research project “Climate for Culture” looking at risks to collections and interior decoration arising from climate change. In 2020 he helped organise a conference on philosophy and ethics with David Scott. His presentation was about his concept of ‘bespoke codes of ethics’ and the publication by the Institute of Conservation of the document Guidelines for creating a personal statement of ethical practice.
Anna Bülow
HEAD OF COLLECTION MANAGEMENT @
THE STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
The developments during two decades of risk management
Dr Anna Bülow is Head of Collection Management at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 2019. She holds an MAC in conservation research from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Specializing in preventive conservation, she completed her PhD at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, in 2002, and took up a post as Head of Preservation at The National Archives, UK in 2003 where she introduced risk management for collection care. In 2013 she moved to the British Museum where she became Head of Conservation. She co-developed the QuiskScan as part of developing and implementing a collection care strategy based on value assessment and risk management. Since 2017 she is the coordinator of the ICOM-CC Working Group on Preventive Conservation.
Bhavesh Shah
PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION AND DATA SCIENTIST @
THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM IN LONDON
In-case LED lighting: a risk management case study at the V&A
Bhavesh’s previous research includes environmental monitoring, dust, and pollutants, IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and modelling light levels in the museum. He has completed an MSc in Data Science for Cultural Heritage (UCL) in 2021 and an MChem Chemistry (Nottingham Trent University) in 2002. Currently co-founder of ConCode (data science for conservators’ network) and website manager for the Icon Modern Materials Network.
Susan Hazan
CEO @
DIGITAL HERITAGE, ISRAEL
The Foundation, The Network and the Climate Community come together to locate Climate Action in Europeana
In her emerita role of Senior Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Dr. Hazan’s responsibilities include: identifying, and implementing digital solutions for the gallery, online and mobile platforms and outreach programs. Her Masters and PhD at Goldsmiths College, (2004) University of London in Media and Communications, focused on electronic architecture in the contemporary museum. Hazan has been recognized for her numerous publications on new media in education, art, museums and cultural heritage, and is currently investigating social networks, innovative platforms for disseminating virtual museums, and digital libraries in the context of cultural heritage.
Researcher, curator, evaluator, lecturer.
Chair Europeana Network Association, (2021-22)
Europeana Advisory Board member (Current)
Chair Europeana Climate Action Community
António Nunes Pereira
DIRECTOR @
PALÁCIO NACIONAL DA PENA, SINTRA
Security and safety challenges of a palace-museum in nature environment. The case of Pena, Sintra
António Nunes Pereira was born in 1967 in Lisbon and trained as an architect at the Technical University (now University) of Lisbon. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Technology in Aachen, Germany, where he lived from 1991 until 2003. His thesis was about the introduction of the European Renaissance in the former Portuguese colony Goa, India, during the sixteenth century, and the development of a specific Goan church architecture. He worked as an assistant to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartwig Schmidt at the Department for Conservation of Built Heritage at Aachen University (1993-2000). He also cooperated with several architectural offices in Portugal and Germany. Back in Lisbon since 2003, he has carried on with his research about Renaissance architecture in Goa. With the financial support of the FCT / Lisbon, he concluded in 2009 a research project about the architectural geometry and proportions of two churches in Goa. In addition to these issues, his research interests include conservation of built heritage, architectural and design theory of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the stage setting in Richard Wagner's music dramas.
He is Associate Professor at IADE - Universidade Europeia in Lisbon, and researcher at UNIDCOM / IADE since 2003. He is director of the Palácio Nacional da Pena since October 2010, of the Palácio de Monserrate since February 2015 and of the Palácio Nacional de Queluz and Palácio Nacional de Sintra since June 2019, Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A., Sintra.
João Sousa Rego
DIRECTOR FOR BUILT HERITAGE @
PARQUES DE SINTRA
Security and safety challenges of a palace-museum in nature environment. The case of Pena, Sintra
Since May 2019, João is the Director for built heritage at Parques de Sintra, responsible for the maintenance, safeguarding and enhancement of the company's building classified as a national monument. Since October 2015, coordinator of Blue Green Corridor at Parques de Sintra, regional project with the involvement of 3 municipalities territorially competent, Sintra, Oeiras and Amadora. Prior to Parques de Sintra, 2011-2015, he was Deputy at Environment Ministry for the areas of land management and urban planning. Integrated the preparation teams of legislative changes, especially the new model of regional planning and land use and changes to licensing legislation. Previously, he held Director roles in the Department of Rehabilitation and New Urban projects in the Empresa Pública de Urbanização de Lisboa, having been responsible for the program "Lisboa a Cores" and urban studies proposals for historic neighbourhoods of Lisbon. He was also active in the field of urban planning, rehabilitation of the existing building and economic feasibility analysis of enterprises for sale and lease.
During six years he was president of the private association CISV Portugal, National Association framed in an international organization, present in 72 countries, which promotes youth education for peace through intercultural.
David Thickett
SENIOR CONSERVATION SCIENTIST @
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Risk assessments in English Heritage national audit over past 20 years
David has a degree in natural sciences, PhD in archaeological conservation and chemistry and worked for two years in industrial ceramics research. Joined the British Museum in 1990, specialising in preventive conservation and inorganic materials conservation research. English Heritage from 2003 as senior conservation scientist, mainly researching preventive conservation. Recent projects have focussed on historic house environments, acoustic emission, collections demography and epidemiology, non-destructive testing, microclimate frames and optical coherence tomography. He sits as a UK expert to the European Standards CENTC 346 (conservation standards) and is a directory board member of the Infra-red and Raman Users Group.
Yacy Ara Froner
FULL PROFESSOR @
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS
Heritage Science Networks and public policies: risk management in museums and preparedness for climate challenges
Yacy has a Ph.D. in Economic History with emphasis on Heritage Sciences (2001) from University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She is a Senior postdoctoral fellow at CAPES with the research Institutions of Intellectual Cooperation for the Protection of Cultural Heritage: History, Science, Training and Politics, developed at ICCROM (2015-2016). She is Full Professor of the Graduate Program in Arts and the Graduate Program in Built Environment and Sustainable Heritage at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship - Level 2. Currently, CNPq Senior Postdoctoral Scholar with the Collaborating Researcher Program at the Department of History of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the USP. Member of the Working Group on Sustainability at ICOM and Climate Change at ICOM-BR. Have been involved in research and projects focused on the study of sustainable heritage and cultural policies from the perspective of international cooperation.
Coord. ArCHE - Art, Conservation & Heritage Science.
CECOR - Center for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage School of Fine Arts - Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Tomás Pereira
SECURITY TECHNICIAN @
PARQUES DE SINTRA
Security and safety challenges of a palace-museum in nature environment. The case of Pena, Sintra
Tomás is an employee of Parques de Sintra since 2012, holding the position of security technician since 2019. With training in tourism management, in the field of management of destinations and tourism products, assists in the management of the company's security and compliance needs.
Bart Ankersmit
CONSERVATION SCIENTIST @
THE CULTURAL HERITAGE AGENCY OF THE NETHERLANDS
Managing climate risks in museums, not very easy
Educated as a chemist, Bart specialised in preventive conservation and risk management for heritage collections. He is active as a museum climate consultant, researching ways to make museums and storage facilities more sustainable. He notably authored a book (Managing Indoor Climate Risks in Museums), on how to manage indoor climate risks in museums, with the aim of finding sustainable solutions. The last years Bart has been active in the development and dissemination of climate risk management in the museum practise and the application within decision making.
