Preservation workshop at the Jewish Holocaust Centre

Qualified paper conservators, Duncan and Christine Rolley, from Artifact Conservation in Kyneton, held a ‘Preservation Workshop’ for Jewish Holocaust Centre staff and volunteers at the Centre last December. This informative, all-day workshop covered all aspects of collection handling and storage. It began with the theory of conservation and gradually moved to practical examples, using the Centre’s own collection items.

The workshop was a wonderful professional development opportunity for Centre staff and volunteers. It was funded by a National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grant, as was the Preservation Needs Assessment report. The funding included an educational trip to Canberra for the Centre’s Curatorial Assistant, Daniel Feldman. The behindthe-scenes visits to the National Library, the National Museum, the National Archives and the National Film and Sound Archive proved to be a valuable experience.