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Documentation of 3rd

training school

Innovation for Conservation

The MEMORI technology - how to manage your indoor air quality

Organized by Association Culture & Work, Germany

in cooperation with Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway

and SIT - International Transporters, Spain

October 3rd

, 2013, 14 – 17.30 h,

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando,

Address: Calle Alcala 13, 28014 Madrid

(The venue: http://www.realacademiabellasartessanfernando.com )

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Implementation of the training school

• Organizers and training school preparation: Association Culture & Work (Berlin/Bad

Mergentheim / Germany) in cooperation with MEMORI-partners NILU (Norwegian

Institute for Air Research (Oslo/Norway) and SIT - Transportes Internacionales S.L

(Madrid/Spain).

• Number of participants: 40

• Kind of participants:

� high class professionals and decision makers from 13 European countries + Japan;

conservation and conservation science professionals, curators, art transportation services,

professionals and students of restoration and conservation (free lancers as well as persons

employed in museums and other cultural heritage institutions), who were interested in

innovative sensor technologies for the preventive conservation of art works

� companies working in the fields of restoration and conservation as well as companies from

other fields which cooperate with restoration / conservation and are interested in learning

about future business fields

• Atmosphere: very interested and concentrated; open networking atmosphere for sharing

experiences

• Methodology: the training school was a pre-event of the MEMORI final conference (many

participants also joined the conference the following day), presentation of MEMORI

dosimeter technology, interactive group work session along a simulated evaluation of IAQ

MEMORI measurements and a set of questions;

• Duration: 3,5 h including a coffee break.

• Dissemination: MEMORI brochures and MEMORI marketing brochures were distributed

together with information about the MEMORI technology

• Follow-up: The training school was regarded as an inspiring and valuable introduction of

the MEMORI conference the other day at Museum Reina Sofia.

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Karin Drda-Kühn (Association Culture & Work/Germany) gave an introduction to the MEMORI

project and the training school and moderated the session.

Terje Grøntoft introduced the MEMORI technology and presented measurements, guidelines and

mitigation. He focused on the new micro sensor technology for preventive conservation,

advantages and mitigation measures.

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Then the workshop participants had the opportunity to get first-hand information on MEMORI

measurements and analysis of three high-class European heritage institutions with the MEMORI

technology: Stephen Hackney / TATE London (United Kingdom), Michal Obarzanowski /

National Museum in Krakow (Poland) and Paul Lankester / English Heritage (United Kingdom)

presented their testing experiences . They talked about the occurrence of damage on different

cultural heritage materials and objects from their painting collections, historic houses and storing

facilities and shared experiences with measurements and results with the MEMORI technology.

(Presentation of Stephen Hackney/TATE)

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Afterwards participants were invited for a group work and divided in groups (∼ 4 persons). They

did the simulated evaluation of IAQ MEMORI measurements and answered a set of questions.

The results were presented by rapporteurs.

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Terje Grøntoft presented the dosimeter and the reader and asked participants to try for

themselves which was appreciated and actively done:

At the end Karin Drda-Kühn gave a short introduction to the MEMORI final conference the other

day at Museum Reina Sofia and invited the participants to communicate with the attending

MEMORI experts.

The MEMORI project thanks Royal Academy of Fine Arts for hosting this training school

and offering an opportunity for communicating the MEMORI technology.