{"id":10259,"date":"2014-06-04T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2014-06-04T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:12:59","slug":"42nd-annual-meeting-collection-care-session-may-29-conservation-assessment-at-schloss-leopoldskron-in-salzburg-austria-promoting-sustainable-choices-for-the-adaptive-re-use-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/06\/04\/42nd-annual-meeting-collection-care-session-may-29-conservation-assessment-at-schloss-leopoldskron-in-salzburg-austria-promoting-sustainable-choices-for-the-adaptive-re-use-of-t\/","title":{"rendered":"42nd Annual Meeting \u2013 Collection Care Session , May 29 \u201cConservation Assessment at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria: Promoting Sustainable Choices for the Adaptive Re-use of the Collection and the Site\u201d presented by Rita Berg, Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, Brooklyn Museum and Crista Pack, Kress Fellow, Arizona State Museum."},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful landscapes to boot, this talk illustrated how graduate students gained experience in preventive conservation by identifying the collections care needs of a prominent historic site that is also a busy event space\/hotel.
\nIn the summer of 2013, four students from New York University and the Winterthur\/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation \u2014 Rita Berg and Cybele Tom (NYU) and Crista Pack and Emily Schuetz Stryker (WUDPAC)\u2014performed a conservation assessment of the historic collection at the Schloss Leopoldskron, under the supervision of Hannelore Roemich, Professor of Conservation Science at NYU and Joelle Wickens, Associate Conservator and Preventive Team Head at Winterthur. The talk was dedicated to Emily who passed away unexpectedly in February of this year.
\nCrista and Rita presented by discussing the building\u2019s history, the goals of the project, the group\u2019s workflow and theoretical approach, recommendations for the future, and lessons learned. The Rococo palace was commissioned by Count Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, and was once owned by Max Reinhardt. It is now an Austrian national historic site, and host of the Salzburg Global Seminar (SGS). The assessment project was co-sponsored by the Kress Foundation and SGS.
\nThe Schloss is not only a magnificent edifice\u2014it is familiar to many as the inspiration for the Von Trapp villa in The Sound of Music<\/em>\u2014but its historic collection includes paintings, works of art on paper, furniture, decorative arts and sculpture. Unfortunately the collection\u2019s condition has never been systematically documented.
\nThe major goals for the project included developing a long-term strategy for caring for the collection, as well as providing educational training for students who were able to test theoretical approaches in a \u201creal-world\u201d scenario (though it was admittedly hard to think of the bucolic, dream-like setting of this palace as \u201creal-world\u201d). However, major challenges quickly presented themselves to the students: food and beverages could be found throughout the house, candles were lit regularly, there were many open windows, objects vulnerable to theft, chaotic transportation and storage of objects during events, wildlife, dust and dirt accumulation.
\nThe group worked in pairs to assess rooms, and three different types of object groups (prints, paintings and architectural elements) using photography and written survey forms that they had developed. They interviewed staff and local scholars, recorded patterns of use and consulted existing literature from the National Parks Service and the Conservation Assessment Program.
\nAmong their recommendations were that the SGS articulate the presentation of the building and collection directly in its mission statement, appoint a collections manager, establish guidelines for events and handling. They also identified that the paintings, which were among the most valuable objects, are at the highest risk.
\nAlthough they found inherent contradictions in the house\u2019s dual function as a historic site and event space\/hotel, the students aimed to raise awareness among staff, owners and guests of the collection\u2019s needs. This was done they maintained, keeping in mind the priority of the space\u2019s functionality. This July a new team of conservation students will continue the project following the guidelines established by their predecessors. And judging from the Alpine landscape, lucky them.
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