American Institute for Conservation
American professional organization
American Institute for Conservation (AIC) | |
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| Founded | 1972; 52 years ago (1972) |
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| Affiliations | Professional association |
| Website | www |
The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) is a national membership organization of conservation professionals, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
History
The AIC first launched in 1972 with only a handful of members. Now it is grown to over 3,500 members in over twenty countries around the world.[1]
Foundation
The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) was incorporated in 1972 to support the charitable, scientific, and educational activities of the AIC. FAIC receives donations and grants to undertake and underwrite efforts that advance the field of conservation, support AIC members in their professional endeavors, and help people care for their collections.
Publications
The AIC publications include The Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, AIC News, and Specialty Group Publications.
References
- ^ "Journal of the American Institute for Conservation". SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
External links
- Official website
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Cultural heritage and historic preservation
and issues
- Agents of deterioration
- Archival processing
- Archaeological science
- Archaeology
- Archive
- Bioarchaeology
- Calendar (archives)
- Conservation and restoration of cultural property
- Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property
- Conservation and restoration of movable cultural property
- Conservation science (cultural property)
- Collecting
- Collection (museum)
- Collection catalog
- Collections maintenance
- Collections management
- Collections management system
- Cultural heritage
- Cultural heritage management
- Cultural property
- Cultural property documentation
- Cultural property exhibition
- Cultural property imaging
- Cultural property storage
- Cultural resources management
- Database preservation
- Deaccessioning (museum)
- Digital library
- Digital photograph restoration
- Digital preservation
- Disaster preparedness (cultural property)
- Film preservation
- Finding aid
- Fonds
- Found in collection
- Heritage asset
- Heritage science
- Inherent vice
- Intangible cultural heritage
- Integrated pest management (cultural property)
- Inventory (library and archive)
- Inventory (museum)
- Media preservation
- Midden
- Mold control and prevention (library and archive)
- Museum
- Optical media preservation
- Preservation (library and archive)
- Preservation metadata
- Preservation survey
- Provenance
- Repatriation
- Ruins
- Sustainable preservation
- Treasure
- Web archiving
and expertise
- Archivist
- Art dealer
- Art handler
- Auctioneer
- Collection manager
- Conservator-restorer
- Conservation scientist
- Conservation technician
- Curator
- Exhibition designer
- Mount maker
- Objects conservator
- Paintings conservator
- Photograph conservator
- Preservationist
- Registrar (cultural property)
- Textile conservator
and techniques
- Aging (artwork)
- Anastylosis
- Arrested decay
- Cradling (paintings)
- Cultural property radiography
- Detachment of wall paintings
- Desmet method
- Display case
- Digital repository audit method based on risk assessment
- Historic paint analysis
- Inpainting
- Kintsugi
- Leafcasting
- Lining of paintings
- Mass deacidification
- Overpainting
- Paleo-inspiration
- Paper splitting
- Reconstruction (architecture)
- Rissverklebung
- Textile stabilization
- Transfer of panel paintings
- UVC-based preservation
- VisualAudio
and restoration
of immovable
cultural property
by item type
and restoration
of movable
cultural property
by item type
- Aircraft
- Ancient Greek pottery
- Bone, horn, and antler objects
- Books, manuscripts, documents and ephemera
- Ceramic objects
- Clocks
- Copper-based objects
- Feathers
- Film
- Flags and banners
- Fur objects
- Glass objects
- Herbaria
- Human remains
- Illuminated manuscripts
- Insect specimens
- Iron and steel objects
- Ivory objects
- Judaica
- Lacquerware
- Leather objects
- Lighthouses
- Metals
- Musical instruments
- Neon objects
- New media art
- Paintings
- Painting frames
- Panel paintings
- Papyrus
- Parchment
- Performance art
- Photographs
- Photographic plates
- Plastic objects
- Rail vehicles
- Road vehicles
- Shipwreck artifacts
- Silver objects
- South Asian household shrines
- Stained glass
- Taxidermy
- Textiles
- Tibetan thangkas
- Time-based media art
- Totem poles
- Vinyl discs
- Woodblock prints
- Wooden artifacts
- Wooden furniture
cultural heritage
preservation
- Ancient music
- Applied folklore
- Dance notation
- Early music
- Endangered language
- Ethnochoreology
- Ethnomusicology
- Ethnopoetics
- Family folklore
- Folklore
- Folk art
- Folk dance
- Folk etymology
- Folk instrument
- Folk medicine
- Folk music
- Folk process
- Folk play
- Foodways
- Folklore studies
- Heritage language
- Heritage language learning
- Indigenous intellectual property
- Indigenous culture
- Indigenous language
- Language death
- Language preservation
- Language revitalization
- Living history
- Oral history preservation
- Preservation of meaning
- Primitive music
- Tradition preservation
- Traditional knowledge
projects
- Conservation issues of Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Conservation-restoration of Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez
- Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins
- Conservation-restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
- Pompeian frescoes
- Conservation-restoration of the Shroud of Turin
- Conservation-restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
- Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty
- Conservation-restoration of the H.L. Hunley
- Conservation response to flood of Arno, Florence
- Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative
- Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
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