This will be of interest to institutions as well as individuals: The Museum of London is offering online courses on the care, conservation and preservation of collections and artifacts. Sounds like a valuable opportunity!
From the Museum’s web site:
Conservators are able to use their specialist skills to stabilise fragile and deteriorating objects and carry out often painstakingly careful cleaning so that they can be put on display. Sometimes fragments of damaged objects are put back together, or missing parts of the object are filled, to make it whole again – these are processes known as ‘restoration’, a term which is often confused with ‘conservation’, the stabilising and cleaning of the object.
An important part of our work is ‘collection care’, where we ensure that temperature, humidity, light, dust and pests levels in the displays and stores are carefully controlled. Much of this work cannot be physically seen, but without this the bulk of our collections would be actively deteriorating.
Although there are Conservators specialising in most materials within the conservation profession, in the Museum of London we have Conservators in the fields in which we have the most needs: Archaeology; Applied Arts (historical objects); Paper; Textiles; and Collection Care.
For distance self- learning, we have created a number of e-learning and self-assessment tools:
– See more at: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections-research/conservation-collection-care/#sthash.a2U7PbWs.dpuf
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I love to read hand written books of early modern period and before, written in perso-Arabic script. usually called as manuscripts. I have travelled a lot in last 40 years and visited major libraries of asia and europe, UK and the US. During these visits to a large number of persian manuscripts, i started also reading archival documents of Mughal India. Now i am getting interested in the restoration and conservation of both. I want to be trained properly in this field. It will help me to restore many manuscripts which are in many private collections of India. Kindly help.