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Bibliothèque de Genève
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Christel Pesme

Bibliothèque de Genève

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Christel Pesme is a collection care professional who currently holds the position of head of the conservation and collection care unit at the Library of Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, she worked in Singapore as the Chief Conservator/Deputy Director-Conservation Services of the Heritage Conservation Center in Singapore. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as the Senior Conservator at M+, Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong, where she led the efforts to develop the conservation and preservation team, labs and activities to prepare the institution ' s opening while guiding its expected continuous growth. After graduating from University Paris 1- Sorbonne in 2006, she worked a couple of years at Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego as a Paper Conservator before joining the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles. Working in the Preventive Conservation Research Group of the GCI science department, she specialized in museum lighting policy development and microfadometry and was in charge in carrying out light sensitivity assessment for the Getty Research Institute, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 2012, she moved back to Europe working in private practice in Basel (Switzerland) as a paper conservator, microfadotesting service provider and preventive conservation consultant. She has also developed and extensively instructed workshops for conservators interested in using MFT in order to implement lighting policy for sensitive collection item. She is now focusing on developing and implementing more sustainable collection car practices.