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ICOM-CC is coming to Norway

14 – 18 September 2026

ICOM-CC is coming to Norway

14 – 18 September 2026

Friday Working Group Session Details

This program is subject to change. Please check the respective pages on the conference website for information regarding registration, technical visits, social events, and pre- and post-conference tours.

Please note that each Working Group session block will run 5 parallel sessions (rooms: Møterom 4, Møterom 1, Sal A, Sal B and Sal C) comprising the listed Working Groups.

Møterom 4 Møterom 1 Sal A Sal B Sal C
09:00 to 09:30 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Chair: Elisa Palomino Museo Vizcaino as a site of cultural education: Gearing toward pedagogical learning laboratory Mild Hombrebueno Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Chairs: Abdullahi Abdulkadir & Chiara Pasian Coming together: The treatment and travels of a sandstone Chinese stele from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Maine Pamela Hatchfield Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Chair: Amy Brost Documenting synchronization: Interdisciplinary strategies for the preservation of James Coleman’s “Charon (MIT)” Johanna Elebe Preventive Conservation Chair: Margarita Villanueva Inter-service collaboration for heritage preservation: The French example Marie Courselaud Paintings Chair: Mine Diri Current practices in strip-lining: A survey of methodologies and materials Ashley Bowersox
09:30 to 10:00 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures AMAZONIE(S): Native voices and pedagogies of art and conservation at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon Camille Benecchi Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Traditions can be broken: Changes in the perception and preservation of paint-filled petroglyphs in Norway Daniela Pawel Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Radical transparency in caring for computer-generated works: From best practices to adapted practices Flaminia Fortunato Preventive Conservation Sustainable environmental control for preventive conservation: Integrating field data and institutional practices in Japan Etsuko Mizutani Paintings Expanding the role of methylcellulose foam in conservation: Drying properties and practical applications illustrated by its use in strip lining Carla Helmrich
10:00 to 10:30 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Rethinking best practice: Principles for community-led conservation in First Nations communities Samantha Hamilton Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Biodeterioration of outdoor gravestones at the Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen: Impacts of conservation treatments and climate change Michela Gambino Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Temporal perspectives on “Sonic Mediations”: Unfolding identities in a sound installation and performance Saara Peisa Preventive Conservation Long-term monitoring of a lacquer commode: Integrating acoustic emission and DSPI for sustainable preservation at the V&A Ashley A. Freeman Paintings How can the mist reinforce? Understanding and preserving a distemper “tüchlein” painting with the Mist-Lining system Jip Van Reijen
10:30 to 11:00 Break & Poster Sessions
11:00 to 11:30 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Chair: Sabine Cotte Te Rā and beyond: Embedding cultural connection in everyday conservation Jade Hadfield Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Chair: Leslie Rainer How to remove and reattach 225,000 tiles without losing your way: Restoration of the mosaic on the west façade of the Kommunenes Hus in Oslo Susanne Kaun Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Chair: Anna Laganà Materiality and intangibility: Care for memory and movement in Alexandra Pirici’s live performative work Re-Collection at SFMOMA Shu-Wen Lin Preventive Conservation Chair: Natalija ၬosić The Art Carton project: Rethinking packaging as a multidisciplinary team in the context of climate crisis Lucille Gaydon Paintings Chair: Sue Ann Chui Preserving historic Andean workshop traditions through modern structural treatments Laura Hartman
11:30 to 12:00 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures The establishment of an international network of Indigenous conservators Anne May Olli Murals, Stone, and Rock Art Planning Session Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Planning Session Preventive Conservation Balancing levels for sustainable transports Lisa Swedberg Paintings Painted textiles and interwoven practices: A technical study, treatment and display of a 19th-century “Raslila pichwai” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nikita Shah
12:00 to 12:30 Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Planning Session Preventive Conservation Planning Session Paintings Planning Session