Fantastic Plastics:
A Master Class for Social History Curators
Are you stumped by celluloid? Baffled by Bakelite? Perplexed by PVC?
Plastic in all its forms has been with us for well over 100 years and most of our
social history collections include it. This study day will equip you with the
confidence to identify, date and care for the examples in your collection.
Learn about the history and development of plastics and some of the issues
involved in conservation, then get hands-on in an identification workshop and
bring your own objects for discussion.
Venue:
Dana Studio, Dana Centre, the Science Museum, 165 Queen's Gate,
South Kensington, London SW7 5HD (0207 942 4040)
Map here: http://www.danacentre.org.uk/aboutus/location
Date and time:
Friday 23rd May 2014, 10.00 – 4.00
Cost:
£35 (SHCG Individual or Institutional members) / £40 (non-members)
Non-members will be enrolled as digital members of the
SHCG as part of their fee*
Lunch, tea and coffee are included
9:45 – 10:10
10.10 -10.15
10.15 -11.00
Registration and coffee
Welcome & Housekeeping
A Brief History of Plastics
With Dr Sue Mossman, Materials Science Specialist, The Science Museum
11:00 –11:15 Questions
11:15 -11:30
Break
11.30-12:15 Care and Conservation of Plastics
With Dr Brenda Keneghan, Polymer Scientist, Conservation Department,
The Victoria & Albert Museum
12:15 –12:30 Questions
12.30 -13.45
13.45 -15.30
15:30 -15.45
15.45 –
16:00
Lunch
Opportunity to look around the Museum Galleries
Identification of Plastics
A hands-on workshop with Colin Williamson, Plastician, and his plastics
museum in a suitcase. Please bring any plastic items from your own
collection that you would like to discuss or find out more about.
Tea break
Questions, round-up and close
* membership will run for one year or part thereof, based on the membership year
Fantastic Plastics - Booking Form
Please return the completed form by 9th May 2014
By post: Helen McConnell, M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN
By e-mail: Helen.McConnell@bristol.gov.uk
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PAYMENT
- Either by cheque or invoice
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FREE PLACE SHCG is offering one free place to any SHCG member who has never
attended an SHCG event before and is willing to write a review for the SHCG News. To
apply, please send an e-mail of no more than 200 words, outlining your reasons for wishing
to attend and what you would gain from the training, to Adam Bell at
adam.bell@twmuseums.org.uk by 25 April 2014.