ABTEM Late Autumn Seminar: Operating and Conserving Historic Industrial & T...
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Description
Following on from two successful and sold out seminars launching ABTEM's 'Guidelines for the Care of Larger & Working Historic Objects’ this event provides a further opportunity to hear more about the new document and hear case studies illustrating the issues faced by those conserving and operating and industrial transport collections.
Speakers include Paul & Joyce Jefford, case study contributors to the Guidelines, Christopher Binks from the National Railway Museum and Efstathios Tsolis who as part of the International Railway Heritage Consultancy helped compile the new document.
The event is hosted by the London Museum of Water and Steam and there will also be case studies from John Porter (LMWS) and Peter Turvey (Kennet & Avon Canal Trust highlighting the issues most relevant to those operating stationary steam engines as well as the chance to look around the Museum and speak to the volunteer team there.
The meeting will also include the ABTEM Annual General Meeting.
Tickets for the event cost £25.
There are two steps to booking:
STEP 1: Register using Eventbrite on this page
STEP 2: Pay for the ticket by using the link:
https://lmws.digitickets.co.uk/tickets/
Agenda
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee and Registration
10.30 - 10.40 Welcome & Housekeeping
10.40 - 11.10 'The ABTEM Guidelines for the Care and Operation of Larger and Working Historic Objects'.
Efstathios Tsolis
11.10 - 11.50 Case Studies: Conservation & Restoration
‘Dynamometer – a legend refreshed’
Chris Binks
'The Story of 677 – Paul and Joyce’s pet Tiger'
Paul & Joyce Jefford
11.50 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 12.50 Case Studies: Stationary Steam Operation
43 Years Experience at Kew Bridge
John Porter (LMWS)
Steaming into a third century: sustaining Crofton Beam Engines
Peter Turvey, Kennet & Avon Canal Trust
13.00 - 14.00 Questions
14.00 - 15.30 LUNCH
15.00 - 15.30 Self-guided tours of LMWS and the chance to speak to the volunteer team
15.30 - 16.00 ABTEM AGM (ABTEM members only)
16.15 Close
Organiser Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums
Organiser of ABTEM Late Autumn Seminar: Operating and Conserving Historic Industrial & Transport Collections
The Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums (ABTEM) is a network which exists to provide a forum for the discussion of matters of common interest to transport and engineering museums and to provide a means of representing their views on issues of national and regional concern.
ABTEM holds regular seminars at museums and heritage sites themed around mainly collections-based topics. By working with other SSN networks and heritage groupings, attendance at meetings has often included delegates from all across the sector.
In Sptember 2012, following Arts Council funding ABTEM has become the Subject Speicalist Network for Transport & Industrial Collections.
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