programme 7-8-9 november 2010
Sep 13, 2014
p r o g r a m m e7 - 8 - 9 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0
p a r t n e r s
w e l c o m e 32
w e l c o m eOn behalf of the Netherlands Registrars Group (NRG) we
are delighted to welcome you to the 7th European Registrars
Conference. The conference programme, with its theme
Bein’ Green, features an interesting range of keynotes,
sessions, networking opportunities and social events. We
anticipate that ERC 2010 will be packed with engaging and
informative discussions and exchanges on how hard it is
bein’ green.
The conference location at the Concertgebouw puts you
in the heart of our beautiful city with the Rijksmuseum,
Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum only a
stone’s throw away.
A conference of this magnitude does not happen without the
hard work of many individuals. We are greatly appreciative
of the countless hours and tireless efforts of the organizing
working groups and the large number of volunteers. The
conference is also fortunate to have a great number of
sponsors whose material support is making this conference
happen.
No conference without delegates and it is to all of you to
whom we wish to extend our sincere thanks for contributing
to what we hope will be a very successful event.
Welcome to Amsterdam and ERC 2010.
Cindy Zalm Chair, Netherlands Registrars Group (NRG)
5
p r o g r a m m e 7 & 8 n o v e m b e r
s u n d a y , 7 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0
17.00 - 18.30 Private viewing of The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 13
This event is sponsored by the Stedelijk Museum
While work continues on the renovation and expansion of the
Stedelijk Museum, The Temporary Stedelijk brings art, artists and
the public back into the museum with two major exhibition projects:
Taking Place and Monumentalism, showing work by artists such as
Roman Ondak, On Kawara, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler,
Job Koelewijn, Renzo Martens and William Leavitt.
18.30 - 19.30 Private viewing of The Masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum Rijksmuseum, Jan Luykenstraat 1
This event is sponsored by the Rijksmuseum
19.30 - 23.00 Welcome reception, buffet and registration at the Van Gogh Museum Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7
This event is sponsored by ICEFAT, the Van Gogh Museum and
the Rijksmuseum
m o n d a y , 8 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 10
Grote Zaal
from 09.00 Registration and coffee09.45 - 10.05 Musical intermezzo10.05 - 10.10 Welcome Cindy Zalm, chair Netherlands Registrars Group
10.10 - 10.25 Introduction Michiel Nijhoff, conference chair day 1
10.25 - 11.00 Keynote Museums, Registrars and Sustainability
Maurice Davies
11.00 - 11.30 Keynote Air Freight Safety European Legislation on Air Freight,
Air Freight Safety and Cargo Screening
René Italiaander
TSA (Transportation Security Administration) in the USA
Scott Pfeifer
11.30 - 12.25 Keynote A Carbon-Neutral Research Centre for Beauty
Randy Klinger
p r o g r a m m e 7 & 8 n o v e m b e r4
Entry to the museums only for registered delegates with a confirmation ticket
The colours in the programme correspond with the colours
on the floor plan on page 12-13
76 p r o g r a m m e 8 n o v e m b e r
Grote Zaal
Session Sustainability and Climate
Control in Museums
Bart Ankersmit
Pleinfoyer
WorkshopTracking the Collection:
Integrating Location
Administration in Your
Adlib Database
Judith van Gent,
Annelies de Mey and
René van de Heuvel
Solistenfoyer
Session New Approaches to Museum
Depots
Hans-Ewald Schneider
Sustainable Storage as Result
of a Preventive Approach
Wouter Hijnberg and
Marco Martens
Dirigentenfoyer
Session Green, Red, Black: Analysis from
the Going Green Survey
Stephen Mellor
15.00 - 15.45 Coffee and tea break
Grote Zaal
Session The Greening of Fine Art
Transportation:
What Colour is your Crate?
Greg Gahagan, Klaus Hillman
and Jonathan Schwartz
Pleinfoyer
WorkshopTracking the Collection:
Integrating Location
Administration in Your
Adlib Database
Judith van Gent, Annelies de Mey
and René van de Heuvel
Solistenfoyer
WorkshopRegistrar, a Reference
Description
Herma Hofmeijer
Dirigentenfoyer
SessionRegistrars at the Centre of
Collections Mobility
Marjolein Cremer
16.50 - 17.00 Grote Zaal
Wrap up Michiel Nijhoff
e v e n i n g e v e n t s
Odeon, Singel 460
19.00 - 22.00 Buffet reception22.00 - 01.00 PartyThe traditional shippers party is sponsored by John Nurminen Prima,
Kortmann and Hizkia Van Kralingen
14.00 - 15.00
15.45 - 16.4512.30 - 14.00 Lunch
12.30 - 16.45 Champagnebar and Balkonfoyer
Networking sessions with sponsors
Entry to the Odeon only for registered delegates with badge
8 9
t u e s d a y , 9 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 10
Grote Zaal
from 09.15 Registration for sessions and coffee10.00 - 10.05 Welcome Cindy Zalm, chair Netherlands Registrars Group
10.05 - 10.15 Introduction Paul Spies, conference chair day 2
10.15 - 10.25 Keynote Lending to Europe: an update
Frank Bergevoet
10.25 - 11.25 Keynote The Art of Transitions to Become Green
Derk Loorbach
11.25 - 12.25 Keynote Procedures at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Beatrix Schopp
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
12.30 - 16.30 Champagnebar and Balkonfoyer
Networking sessions with sponsors
Grote Zaal
Session Towards a new European
Organisation: Sustaining the
Knowledge of European
Collection Mobility
a panel discussion
Solistenfoyer
Session Will Being Green Influence
Fine Art insurance?
Stephan Zilkens
The Loan is Insured =
Green Light?
Cees Kortleve
Pleinfoyer
WorkshopTracking the Collection:
Integrating Location
Administration in Your
Adlib Database
Judith van Gent,
Annelies de Mey and
René van de Heuvel
Dirigentenfoyer
Session From Manual Inventory Books to
Digitized Inventory Records:
A Preliminary Exploration of the
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Pang-Yen Cheng
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee and tea break
14.00 - 15.00
p r o g r a m m e 9 n o v e m b e r
The colours in the programme correspond with the colours
on the floor plan on page 12-13
p r o g r a m m e 9 n o v e m b e r
1 10 p r o g r a m m e 9 n o v e m b e r 1
e v e n i n g e v e n tAllard Pierson Museum and Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam,
Oude Turfmarkt 127-129
17.30 - 20.00 Farewell reception and private viewing of the exhibitions: Alexander’s legacy at the Allard Pierson Museum and
Rebels with a cause. 75 years of IISH at the Special Collections
Entry only for registered delegates with badge
Grote Zaal
Session Vibrrrrrrrrrrations.
The Impact of Vibration
on Works of Art
Bill Wei
Pleinfoyer
SessionEnergy-optimized Rebirth:
The Renovation of the
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in
Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Reinhard Spieler
Solistenfoyer
Session How to Find a Needle in a
Haystack?
Implementation of RFID as an
Improvement in the Management
of a Scientific Collection:
the Case of Institut Català de
Paleontologia, Barcelona
Laura Celià
Experience with RFID Technology
at Apice in Florence
Laura Reina
Dirigentenfoyer
SessionAn International Concern: The Bizot Group Questionnaire and the
V&A’s Approach to Becoming a Greener Museum
Sandra Smith
15.30 - 16.30
16.35 - 16.45 Grote Zaal
Presentation of the award winning Bein’ Green project
16.45 - 16.55 Reports from the European registrars groups ERC 2012 - the next venue
16.55 - 17.10 Wrap up What have we learned? Summary and conclusions
Max Meijer
1 1 32 c o n c e r t g e b o u w f l o o r p l a n
c o n c e r t g e b o u w f l o o r p l a n
Ground f l oo r F i r s t f l oo r
Main entranceEntrance hall and information desk
Terrace
Cloakroom (guarded)
Grote Zaal
Spiegelzaal
Julianafoyer
Beatrixfoyer
Zuidfoyer
Noordfoyer
Champagnebar
Dirigentenfoyer
Solistenfoyer
Pleinfoyer
Balkonfoyer
Cloakroom (unguarded)
Staircases to First floor
Elevator to Grote Zaal
Staircase to Pleinfoyer
Elevator
Emergency exit
Cloakroom (unguarded)
Staircases to First floor
Elevator to Grote Zaal
Staircase to Pleinfoyer
Elevator
Emergency exit
AB 5 5C
16 6
D H2 7 7E I8 8F J3 9 9G K4
1 1 54 c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Bar t Anke r sm i t
Bart Ankersmit is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for
Cultural Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. In 1996, after completing doctoral
research at the University of Amsterdam, he started research on pre-
ventive conservation of metal collections. This study has set out to measure various
harmful gases in the indoor museum, the transport of those gases from source to
object and the extent to which showcases affect this transport. Since 2006 much atten-
tion is paid to the museum interior. The knowledge developed in late 2008 led to new
climate guidelines. Developments in this area have been made possible by a covenant
between several institutions that have an interest and responsibility in this matter.
F rank Be rgevoe t
Frank Bergevoet is advisor/programme coordinator Museometry at the
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. He has
extensive experience in the broad field of collection management.
In 2004, during the Netherlands presidency of the EU, he was conference manager
for the international meeting of museum experts ‘Museum Collections on the Move’ in
The Hague and worked with great passion as selection manager on the development
of de-accessioning tools for the museum sector. Frank is currently working on a
new policy line for ICN: museometry. Museometry is all about facts and figures on
collections management in museums.
Don G ianmat teo Capu to
Don Gianmatteo Caputo is director of Ufficio dei Beni Culturali del
Patriarcato and of Museo Diocesano, both in Venice. He graduated in
architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Archiettura Venice and his
field of study includes theology and philosophy. He co-operates with the CEI
(Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) as scientific supervisor of the IT inventory of
ecclesiastic cultural assets. He is also curator of exhibitions of sacred and
contemporary art and has published essays for art catalogues and other publications.
Lau ra Ce l ià
Laura Celià has a degree in Biology from the University of the Balearic
Islands (2002) and a master in Management of Cultural Heritage from
the University of Barcelona (2008). In 2005 she graduated in Teaching
Museography (UB). At the same time she received a scholarship at the Institute of
Palaeontology. She has participated in several excavation campaigns in Mallorca,
Catalonia, Castellon and Granada. Since 2007, she is the curator of the ICP collection
and currently combines collection management at the Institut Català de Paleontologia
with her doctoral thesis on the program Management of Culture and Heritage
(University of Barcelona) under the leadership of Ph Dr. Llorenç Prats, based on the
problems with the management of vertebrate paleontological heritage in Catalonia.
Pang-Yen Cheng
Pang-Yen Cheng is assistant registrar at the Registration and
Conservation Department of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in
Taipei, Taiwan and the chair of Collection Management System SIG,
Museum Computer Network, Taiwan Chapter. He graduated from Fu Jen Catholic
University and Taipei National University of the Arts with two MA degrees both
in Museum Studies and Chinese Art History. Presently, he succeeded to his Ph.D.
programme in Graduate Institute of Multi-Culture Education, National Dong-Hua
University. He used to work at Digital Archives Project of Chinese Antiquities at
NPM from 2001 to 2006 and also experienced an internship at the Asian Department,
Cleveland Museum of Art in the summer of 2006. His research interests include
museum collection management, Chinese art history (Han dynasty art and Cloisonné),
as well as museum multicultural education.
1 1 76
Greg Gahagan
Greg Gahagan is the Vice President and operations manager of Ship/
Art International, a museum quality fine arts transportation company with
offices in San Francisco and Denver. He joined the management team at
Ship/Art in 1991 and now oversees the day-to-day operations of the company including
its environmental program. Greg is the chairman of the ICEFAT Green Committee and
is dedicated to establishing environmental sustainability within the fine arts industry.
Jud i th van Gen t
Judith van Gent is head of Documentation at the Amsterdam Historical
Museum and in this position responsible for the collection management
system. She is an art historian with a specialization in automation. In the
90’s she worked on various digitization projects (at the Netherlands Institute for Art
History, The Hague and Radboud University, Nijmegen) and as a cultural information
advisor at Bureau IMC in Rotterdam. She also did research on the work and life of
Bartholomeus van der Helst, which will result in a dissertation this year.
René van de Heuve l
Rene van den Heuvel started his career at Datahouse, a systems
integration company, as a software programmer. During his long
career at Adlib Information Systems he has been involved in several
departments and activities including application engineering, help desk, training,
consultancy and application development. Currently he is the International Sales
Manager for Adlib and plays a key role in the development of applications.
c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Mar jo le in C remer ( on beha l f o f Agnes We i j )
Marjolein Cremer is project coordinator international affairs at the
Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland). Heritage in
relation to Europe and the Foreign Visitors programme are subjects
that she works on. She has a BA and MA in Arts, Policy and Management of visual
arts and media arts from the University of Groningen. Since 2008 she is involved in
the EU project ‘Collections Mobility 2.0’.
As t r id We i j
Astrid Weij is programme manager of cultural heritage from an
international perspective at the Netherlands Institute for Heritage
(Erfgoed Nederland). Heritage in relation to Europe and mutual
cultural heritage are subjects that she works on. She has a BA and MA in museology.
She played a significant role in setting collections mobility on the European agenda
when she was policy advisor in international affairs at the Netherlands Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science (2001-2007).
Maur i ce Dav ies
Maurice Davies is head of policy and communication at the Museums
Association in the UK. He’s held a variety of other roles at the Museums
Association including editor of Museums Journal and deputy director.
He recently led the Museums Association’s work on sustainability and museums.
In the past few years his work has included: the illicit trade in cultural property,
repatriation, human remains in museums, aspects of the MA’s Collections for the
Future report, disposal of collections, entry to and diversity of the museum workforce,
and research into the impact of major lottery projects on museum visiting in London.
He has a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute, University of London
and a first degree in pure mathematics from the University of Warwick. He’s also
been a curator at Manchester Art Gallery and a Turner Scholar at Tate.
911 8 c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Woute r H i j nbe rg
Wouter Hijnberg studied Preventive Conservation at the Reinwardt
Academy in Amsterdam. He is now managing director and owner of
Helicon conservation support. Helicon developed a concept for a
sustainable storage for cultural heritage as a result of a preventive approach.
This concept is not only an improvement on the conservation of collections but it
is better for the environment and is lower in cost than a traditional building.
In 2012 Helicon will open the first storage built according to this concept.
K laus H i l lman
In 1979 Klaus Hillman founded NADA, a small business specializing
in the transport of works of art. In 1986 the growing company was
newly formed under the name of TANDEM. Today Tandem is one of
Europe’s busiest art shipping companies and has established a very reliable shuttle
network throughout Germany and Western Europe. Klaus became a member of the
ICEFAT Green Committee in order to promote the sense of responsibility and
ecological activity within his industry.
Her ma Ho fme i j e r
Herma Hofmeijer is process supervisor constructions at the Museum
of National History in Arnhem. In her previous function as director of
the Netherlands Association of National Museums (2004-2010) she
represented the national museums in various important issues, such as the
negotiations with the unions concerning salaries and terms of employment for
museum workers. This resulted in the creation of reference function descriptions
and job structures for museum employees. In 2008-2009 Herma Hofmeijer created,
in close cooperation with the Netherlands Registrars Group, a function description
for the museum registrar. To do this, it was necessary to formulate the specific
competences necessary to be a professional registrar. The result is that the museum
registrar is now accepted as an official function within the Dutch museum organisation.
René I ta l i aander
René Italiaander started his career in the air freight industry in 1986 as
an export employee for an airline. After this challenging job, he joined
a shipping agent for general cargo. In 1999, he joined the museum
logistics industry at Gerlach Art Packers & Shippers. René started as an exhibition
coordinator and worked his way up through the jobs of team leader and office
manager to become Director of Operations, responsible for the Dutch operations
at John Nurminen Prima. In August 2008, Gerlach merged with John Nurminen Prima
and all their offices have been operating under the name of John Nurminen Prima
since 1 October 2010.
Randy K l i nge r
Randy Klinger is founder and director of Moray Art Centre. He has
been an artist since early childhood and has been exhibiting in Italy
for the past 18 years, and more recently in Japan. Born in New York,
he graduated from The Cooper Union with honours. He began teaching art in 2002,
when he moved to Scotland and ran a small studio for 15 years before founding the
Moray Art Centre. In 2007, as part of his ambitions as an artist, Randy raised one
million pounds, mostly from inspired individuals, and opened a research centre for
beauty to the public, with exhibition partners including the British Museum, the
Courtauld Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland.
Cees Ko r t l eve
Cees Kortleve is insurance broker. For several decades he was
employed by the insurance department of ABN AMRO. His last position
with this company was manager of the property department. In 1988
he became involved in art insurance and took care of the insurances of museum
collections and national and international loans to major art exhibitions, of which
the value in some cases exceeded several billions Euro. In 1995 he became director
of Aon Artscope Netherlands and chairman of Aon Artscope Europe. During his
career Cees has been a member as well as chairman of various committees in
the insurance market and advised the Dutch Government in setting up the Dutch
Indemnity Scheme.
1202 c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Derk Loo rbach
Derk Loorbach is researcher at the Dutch Research Institute for
Transitions (DRIFT) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus
University Rotterdam. Within his research, he focuses on the
development of transition management in theory and practice. Central theme in
his PhD-research is the development of an integrated framework for structuring
transition management activities and for organizing transition management processes.
A central concept is the ‘transition-arena’. Transition management can be described
as a new governance-model based on complex systems’ thinking and is aimed at
facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability.
Marco Mar tens
Marco Martens studied Building Physics at the Eindhoven University of
Technology. In 2005 he started a PhD study on indoor climate in various
Dutch museums. The main topic of his PhD is to assess conservational
properties of indoor climates out of measurement data and to predict these properties
using simulation. Most Dutch museums are located in old buildings. To improve
conservational properties of these buildings, the indoor climate is modified using
various climate systems. Also newly built museums and storage buildings rely to a
large extent on complicated systems. Modern building materials however give us the
possibility to create optimal conservational properties without using climate systems.
A good building envelope and some regulations and limitations in building use make
sure the climate is suitable even for storing delicate objects. A green storage facility is
therefore within reach.
Max Me i j e r
Max Meyer studied at the Reinwardt Academy in Leiden, as well as a
number of years Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
He completed a large number of courses in marketing, management
and strategy and has been working in the museum sector since 1982 in various
management functions. Since 2007 he is co-owner of TiMe (Timmer & Meijer)
Amsterdam. TiMe Amsterdam provides services to the cultural sector and the creative
industry: strategies and content as well as implementation in the form of consultancy,
research and concept development. TiMe Amsterdam’s main clients are museums,
heritage institutions and governments.
S tephen Me l lo r
Stephen Mellor has been the Exhibitions Co-ordinator at Tate Modern,
London (9 years). During this time he had responsibility for exhibition
production and logistics, schedules, design, registration, budgets,
touring and contracts and more. Previously he has been Exhibitions Manager at
the Art Gallery of Western Australia (13 years); Scenery Designer at BBC Television
(10 years); and Display Manager at the London Design Centre (4 years). Stephen
has been a member of the Steering Committee of the International Exhibition
Organisers Group, the London Exhibition Organisers Group and the UK Sustainable
Exhibitions Group. Contact: [email protected]
Anne l i e s de Mey
Annelies de Mey received a master in Art Sciences from the University
of Ghent in 2002. In 2003 she obtained the postgraduate degree
Conservation Employee from the University College in Ghent. In
addition, she completed the course Cultural Management at the University of Antwerp.
From 2005 until 2007 she worked as registrar for the City of Antwerp. In 2007 she
was the Cultural Policy Coordinator of the City of Aalter. Since 2008 Annelies is
Relocation Coordinator at the Museum at the Stream (MAS) in Antwerp. In this
capacity she organises and supervises the registration (in Adlib), barcode labelling,
pest-treatments, packaging, transportation and storage of a maritime, an ethnological
and a folklore collection. She was also closely involved with the construction plans for
the new depot facilities.
3222 c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Mich ie l N i j ho f f
Michiel Nijhoff is art historian and librarian and at present head of the
library and collection registration at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
From 1988-2002 he worked at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in
Rotterdam, first as assistant librarian and from 1997 as head of this library. In 2002 he
became head of the library of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and in 2006 head of
the library and collection registration. Michiel was active as member of the Art Section
of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) and chairman of ARLIS
(Art Libraries Society / The Netherlands). In 2001 he made the compilation film
‘The librarian in the movies’ and in 2006 won the Victorine Van Schaik essay price.
He publishes regularly on subjects concerning museum libraries, art history and film.
Sco t t P fe i f e r
Scott Pfeifer is Vice President of Masterpiece International. He has
a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in
Transportation/Logistics from Iowa State University and an MBA in
International Business from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has been in the fine
art transportation business for 23 years, the last 16 with Masterpiece International.
Scott will discuss the origin of the regulations in the USA, current rules and
requirements, and the practical realities of the programme as it pertains to our
daily shipping.
Lau ra Re ina
Laura Reina is coordination manager of the APICE group, an Italian
benchmark in transportation of works of art. After having worked in
the fine art transport industry since 1989, she joined Apice at the
beginning of 2009 when the company was founded. Her main responsibilities include
coordination of the Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice offices, as well as planning,
budgeting for national and international exhibitions, and business development at
international level.
En r i co R i zz i
Enrico Rizzi is project manager of Zucchetti Spa, one of the most
important Italian groups in the ICT sector. His main task is to provide
careful analysis of the clients’ needs, to coordinate and manage
projects and to supervise integration of IT systems.
Hans-Ewa ld Schne ide r
Hans-Ewald Schneider is the managing partner of Hasenkamp
(4th generation) with headquarters in Cologne-Frechen. Hasenkamp
is the leading European logistics service provider for fragile and
precious goods. After graduating with a degree in Economics, he worked for the
American lease company CTI (Container Transport International) before he changed
to the future leaders programme of Kaufhof AG for the period of two years. In 1981 he
joined Hasenkamp International Transport GmbH and became partner of the company
in 1991. Furthermore he is a member of various business councils and board member
of several national and international associations.
Bea t r i x Schopp
Beatrix Schopp is registrar at Museum Ludwig in Cologne. She has been
working for the City of Cologne since 1984, at the Museums of Cologne
since 1985 and at the Administration Department of Museum Ludwig
since 1996. She has been a member of Registrars Deutschland since 2004. Being
the first registrar at Museum Ludwig since 2004 she has had the chance to put her
extensive experience with international loan standards and requirements into practice
and to work out new ideas in her daily work. In her conference presentation Beatrix will
reflect on what it means to be a registrar in a museum for modern art in Germany.
5242 c o n f e r e n c e c h a i r s a n d s p e a k e r s
Jona than Schwar t z
Jonathan Schwartz founded Atelier 4 in 1989 as an art transport
company focusing on the burgeoning contemporary art market.
By 2002 he expanded Atelier 4’s capabilities as an IATA agent and
customs broker augmenting its climate control storage, trucking and bespoke crating
departments. Jonathan’s involvement in the practical application of environmental
responsibility is shared by his staff in both the New York and Miami branches of
Atelier 4.
Sandra Smi th
Sandra Smith was trained at The Institute of Archaeology, London,
in Archaeological Conservation and Material Science. After graduation
she worked as an on-site conservator in Syria. She joined the
Department of Conservation at the British Museum, specialising in ceramics and
glass conservation. In 1992 she became Head of the Ceramics and Glass Section
and was promoted to Head of the Inorganic Materials Group in 1997. In January
2003 Sandra joined the V&A as Head of Conservation. For the past two months
she has been working with the directors of the Van Gogh Museum and the V&A to
interpret the results of the Bizot Groups questionnaire ‘How Green is your museum?’
Re inhard Sp ie le r
Reinhard Spieler studied art history, archaeology and literature in
Munich, Paris and Berlin and received a PhD in 1997 in Munich
(“The triptychs of Max Beckmann”). From 2002-2006 he was (founding)
director of Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf/Bern in Switzerland and is since 2007
director of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He is also lecturer
at the universities of Düsseldorf, Berne and Heidelberg as well as at the Düsseldorf
Academy of Fine Arts. He has numerous publications and exhibitions on modern and
contemporary art to his name.
Pau l Sp ies
Paul Spies graduated in 1986 (cum laude) in Art History and Classical
Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1987 he founded
together with two colleagues D’ARTS, a bureau for art historical advice
and organisation. Before D’ARTS he worked as a producer and consultant for many
museums in Amsterdam and beyond, specialising in: museum concepts, exhibitions,
publications and publicity campaigns. In 2006 he and his associate Rob van Zoest
became directors of the Foundation Opening Soestdijk Palace. In 2009 Paul became
director of the Amsterdam Historical Museum and Museum Willet-Holthuysen.
B i l l We i
Bill Wei is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural
Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. He has a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering
from Princeton University (USA 1977) and in 1983 received his doctorate
in materials (metal) studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA).
Until late 2001 he worked primarily for the aerospace, rail and energy sector. Bill is
working with ICN since 1998 in the Knowledge Group and researches among others
the influence of vibration on sensitive objects.
S tephan Z i l kens
Stephan Zilkens is managing partner at Zilkens GmbH Insurance. Zilkens
is a specialist for risk hedging in small and medium-sized companies, in
particular for the sectors renewable energies, logistics and art. Owing to
many years of experience and close contacts with reputable insurance companies he
acquired a broad insurance portfolio. He is a specialist in the area of art insurance in
all its facets.
Conce r tgebouw
Concertgebouwplein 10
1071 LN Amsterdam
Tel. +31 (0)20 5730573
www.concertgebouw.nl
The Concertgebouw is situated
on Museum Square and is easily
reached by public transport (tram 2
and 5). There is a taxi rank next to
the main entrance of the building.
The Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum
and Van Gogh Museum are
also located on Museum Square.
Odeon
Singel 460
1017 AW Amsterdam
Tel. +31 (0)20 5218555
www.odeontheater.nl
A l la rd P ie r son Museum
and Spec ia l Co l l ec t i ons o f
t he Un i ve r s i t y o f Ams te rdam
Oude Turfmarkt 127 - 129
1012 GC Amsterdam
Tel. + 31 (0)20 5257300
www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl
www.uba.uva.nl/bbc
i n f o r m a t i o n
Badge
Your official name badge must be worn at
all times, as it is your entry to all sessions
and social functions.