Now accepting Abstracts for the 2023 Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit:
Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health
Professional Development Seminar
The Potomac Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Washington Conservation Guild, the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (OSHEM), and the Smithsonian National Collections Program will once again collaborate with the Lunder Conservation Center to host a Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit.
Friday, 27 October 2023 Hybrid Event: In-Person and Streamed On-line
We are now accepting abstracts focusing on controlling health and safety risks from preparing, treating, managing, and exhibiting artistic, historic, and natural science collections as well as abating structural hazards and responding to disasters impacting collections, including challenges of the pandemic. We welcome case studies and action plans, and we encourage joint presentations by conservators, collections care professionals, AND health & safety professionals!
See attachment for additional details.
Questions are welcome! Please send your presentation abstracts to summit-abstracts@washingtonconservationguild.org by close of business on Tuesday, 1 August 2023.
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Samantha Snell
Collections Management Specialist
National Collections Program
Washington DC
(703) 572-4108
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