"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Seminar: Preventive Conversation: Packing, Shipping and Storage Management - I
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör
Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
Concepts of preventive conservation, risk management and storage management; basic principles and standards of packing, shipping and storage management; institutions working in the field; the quality of specialist staff; related forms; properties of materials that can be used in packing, shipping and storage; deteriorations of unappropriate materials on the collection; packing and shipping methods according to different types of materials; physical and environmental conditions of storage areas; museum examples of storage methods and furniture both from Turkey and abroad.
About Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör
Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör holds her bachelor's degree in classical archeology, master's degree in museum studies, and PhD degree in architectural history and theory. She conducted her post-doc research named as ‘museum storage management’ at ICCROM. She interned at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums and the J. Paul Getty Museum, worked as senior researcher at the National Museum of Kenya. She is the Executive Committee Member of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and Head of the Tangible Cultural Heritage Expert Committee. She is the Board Member of the Yıldız Technical University Research Center for Preservation of Historical Heritage and ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP) Türkiye. She taught courses at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Art Works at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, and Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Art and Cultural Management, and she acted as the Head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property at Yıldız Technical University between 2017-2024. Nevra Ertürk Güngör is an academic staff at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property and her research interest are; cultural heritage management, risk management in museums, curatorial work and museum storage management.
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 650 TL.
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.