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Contact information:
Conservators: Sian Tiley-Nel & Isabelle Barrier
Opening Hours: By appointment only
Tel: 012 420 5181 ♦ Fax: 012 420 4918
Email: sian.tiley@up.ac.za & isabelle.barrier@up.ac.za
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About the facility
The facility’s mission is to serve the University by advancing the understanding of the science of interventive objects-conservation and communicating the results of objects-based research to all audiences through publication and exhibition, as well as providing a practical training ground for students.
The facility is currently co-managed by Sian Tiley-Nel, Curator of the Mapungubwe Museum, and Isabelle Barrier, the museum assistant. Although both are trained as archaeologists, they are also trained conservators, serving as members of the South African Guild of Ceramic Conservators and Restorers.
The facility services the UP Art and Heritage Collections, predominantly those of the Mapungubwe Museum, Edoardo Villa Museum, Anton Van Wouw Museum and the Van Tilburg Museum, as well as the University of Pretoria’s vast other smaller collections. The conservation facility offers specialised preventative and interventive conservation (remedial) treatment, including professional advice on a range of materials from low-fired ceramics, including porcelain and china, stone, bone, ivory, glass, metals, to plaster. Professional museum collections management practices are implemented by the Objects Conservation Facility, which also serves as an official heritage curation facility.
The Objects Conservation Facility also provides a public service for the restoration of ceramics, metals, stone and other types of materials.
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