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<\/span>Tip #6: Attend conferences, lectures and workshops<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Like lab visits, attending educational events can teach you a great deal about conservation, as well as give you an opportunity to meet other conservators, scientists, artists, and museum professionals. Take a look at the calendars of local museums, galleries, universities and conservation guilds to find out what\u2019s happening.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s an example<\/span><\/a> of a conference on photographic materials summarized by Amy Brost.<\/span><\/p>\n Professional organizations generally hold an annual conference, which offers a plethora of lectures and workshops\u2026enough to make it worth the trip to another state. AIC\u2019s annual conference will be held in Philadelphia in 2011, and includes a variety of interesting paper topics, courses, and tours of conservation labs (see the schedule <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>). You can also check the websites of other organizations listed in <\/span>tip #2<\/span><\/a> for upcoming conferences and events.<\/span><\/p>\n Even for those already in the field of conservation, continuing education is a necessity to stay abreast of current theory and practice. If you read the <\/span>distlist<\/span><\/a>, you\u2019ll see posts about upcoming events every week, that target a breadth of audiences. Though some can be pricey, there are many talks and webinars that cost absolutely nothing, like <\/span>this lecture<\/span><\/a> by Carol Mancusi-Ungaro at the Menil Collection in Houston, or the Connecting to Collections <\/span>webinar series<\/span><\/a>. Just be patient and look around for something that suits you.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tip #6: Attend conferences, lectures and workshops Like lab visits, attending educational events can teach you a great deal about conservation, as well as give you an opportunity to meet other conservators, scientists, artists, and museum professionals. Take a look at the calendars of local museums, galleries, universities and conservation guilds to find out what\u2019s … Continue reading “10 Tips for Becoming a Conservator”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}