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Preservation for the Future
One of the most modern preservation studios in Poland will go into service on Monday, June 23. It will employ specialists from Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń who are graduates of the Fine arts Faculty with specializations in the preservation and restoration of works of art.
After its opening, the studio will work on an ongoing basis on tasks including, primarily, the preservation of archival holdings and other objects from the Museum collections. The studio will also work on the preservation of structures on the Museum grounds.
The project is financed by a $2,700,000 grant from the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation (USA).
International Conference
An international preservation conference on June 23-25, with the Polish Minister of Culture as patron, will mark the opening of the new studio.
The agenda for the invited guests from Poland and other countries includes "The Limits of Museum and Preservationist Intervention at the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial," "How to Preserve the Ruins of the Gas Chambers and Crematoria," and "Preservationist-Ethical Dilemmas Associated with the Preservation of the Victims' Hair."
The conference will close with a panel discussion on the role of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in the twenty-first century, with representatives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem, and the Holocaust Musuem in Washington taking part.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim is organizing the conference with financial support from the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation (USA).
Accompanying Exhibition
The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition illustrating the range of preservation work completed at the concentration camp site from the 1950s through 2002.
