Skip to main content
  1. Faculty of Arts
  2. Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
  3. Cultural Conservation Channel
Faculty of Arts

Cultural Conservation Channel

WelcomereCollectionsConservation Learning SeriesStudent project blogVideos

Welcome to the Cultural Conservation Channel.

Overview

The Cultural Conservation Channel provides accessible, informative, and practical information about the conservation of cultural material to communities and individuals with an interest preserving their history and culture. It showcases the work of students and staff at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation as well as the work of museum professionals, volunteers and custodians of privately-owned heritage with whom the Centre is engaged. The centre gratefully acknowledges the support of the Helen MacPherson-Smith Trust, which made the creation of the channel possible.

This website also provides a portal to the reCollections website, which updates the 1998-2000 handbook series reCollections: caring for collections across Australia. reCollections has been made possible by the kind permission of the copyright holder, the Department of Communications and the Arts, and has been a partnership program in collaboration with the national professional body for conservators, the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), and its members.

Tweets by @indiglang

reCollections is an online resource all about caring for collection materials.

Supporting distributed cultural collections by connecting conservators and custodians

reCollections: Caring for Distributed Collections is designed to help people care for their objects and their collections. Written by conservators, it provides a sound guide for the care and management of cultural items and collections. A wide range of materials are covered, as well as the common causes of deterioration and appropriate storage, handling and display techniques. Information provided includes:

  • common deterioration processes
  • light and ultraviolet radiation
  • humidity and temperature
  • biological pests
  • dust and pollutants
  • handling
  • storage and display 
  • transportation
  • materials
  • management

reCollections

With the support of the Department of Communications and the Arts, Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) and the Helen McPherson Smith Trust, the Grimwade Centre has updated and republished the reCollections guide to the care and management of cultural collections principally for non-conservators working with cultural collections.

Visit reCollections

Build your knowledge of how to care for collections through the Conservation Learning Series.

The Conservation Series is a short, online learning program for anyone interested in enhancing their collection management skills.

Delivered by professional conservators, the Conservation Series is ideal for building your understanding of things that can accelerate damage and deterioration of collections, and what you can do to protect artworks and objects into the future.

The Conservation Learning Series delivers an introductory package ideal for all people who own or manage cultural collections including volunteers, collection caretakers, museum and gallery workers, curators, registrars, community workers, and private individuals.

Launching in 2022

The Conservation Series would like to acknowledge the University of Melbourne Proof-of-Concept Fund for the advancement of research.

Caring for collections

Caring for collections - the complete Conservation Series

Gain a complete understanding of best-practice collection care activities including safe object handling, collection environments, documentation, storage and packing, and disaster preparedness.

  • Delivery mode: Online and one live group zoom session
  • Duration: 5 hours
  • Digital Certificate of Completion

Explore the course

Disaster preparedness 3

Disaster preparedness for collections

Discover how disasters can impact collections and the active steps you can take to prevent them.

  • Delivery mode: Online and one live group zoom session
  • Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes
  • Digital Certificate of Completion

Explore the course

Storage and packing 4

Storing collections properly

Develop an understanding of how to store artwork and cultural material safely.

  • Delivery mode: Online and one live group zoom session
  • Duration: 3 hours and 30 minutes
  • Digital Certificate of Completion

Explore the course

How to document collections

How to document collections

Gain an introductory understanding of how to use best-practice collections record-keeping procedures to document your collection items.

  • Delivery mode: Online and one live group zoom session
  • Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes
  • Digital Certificate of Completion

Explore the course

Contact us

Have a question about the Conservation Learning Series? Get in touch.

Contact us

The Grimwade Centre student project blog showcases the work of our Masters and PhD students

Visit the Grimwade Centre blog

Learn more about the Grimwade Centre through videos of recent events, seminars and workshops

  • Made to last: the conservation of art

  • Keeping Knowledge Alive

  • Restoring one of the world’s rarest maps

  • Loong Conservation Project

  • Middle Eastern Manuscript research

  • Archaeological ceramics with Dr Holly Jones-Amin

  • Conserving an Old Master woodcut

  • Paper conservation of Absalom West's Views of NSW

Disclaimer: Work in these videos is undertaken or supervised by highly skilled conservation experts from the Grimwade Centre. Please consult an expert before undertaking any conservation action. Professional services are available through the our commercial services.

Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Linked In
STAFF INTRANET

Faculty of Arts

  • Schools
    • Asia Institute
    • Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
    • School of Culture and Communications
    • School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
    • School of Languages and Linguistics
    • School of Social and Political Sciences
    • Research units and centres
      • Australian Centre
      • Centre for Advancing Journalism
      • Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies
      • Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
      • Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network
      • Language Testing Research Centre
      • National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies
      • Research Unit for Indigenous Language
      • Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication
      • Research Unit in Public Cultures
      • The Policy Lab
  • Study with us
    • Bachelor of Arts
    • Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • News
  • Events
  • Research
    • Research showcase
    • Research centres and groups
    • Digital Studio
    • Research support
  • Arts student Information
    • Undergraduate
    • Graduate coursework
    • Graduate research
    • Scholarships
    • Students.unimelb website
  • Engage with us
    • Partnerships
    • International Engagement
    • Alumni and friends
    • Community Education
    • Work with us
    • Make a gift
  • About
  • Contact us
  • Current Students
  • Library
  • Staff