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TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT EGYPT CULTURAL HERITAGE ADDRESSED TO THE MUSEUMS OF CAIRO
ISCR’s Training Programmes in Egypt
Egyptian Museum, Coptic Museum, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization- NMECD and Textile Museum of Cairo are the 5 museums involved in the Museology, Preservation and Restoration training programmes carried out by ISCR – the Italian Superior Institute for Preservation and Restoration – in Egypt.
Within the agreement drawn up for the Secretariat-General of Italian Ministry for Arts and Culture the so-called “Egyptian Mmuseum Requalification System” project is financed by the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Organized in close collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, ISCR’s education programmes have seen more than 120 Egyptian attendants among curators, restorers, archaeologists as well as librarians and involved about 70 academic teachers.
The basic principles of ISCR’s training programmes in Cairo’s museums can be synthesised as follows:
- Overtime artworks preservation by Prevention and Maintenance as essential instruments
- Technological and Scientific training for workers of Cultural Heritage Preservation and Restoration fields
- Setting up of strategies and policies in order to set conservative actions by preventive analysis of the risks and vulnerability of Ancient Egyptian Cultural Heritage
Courses aims:
- Enhancing specialist knowledge and planning skills in the fields of Museum Management, Conservation and Restorations
- Running targeted programmes for libraries and books preventive conservation’s fields
- Strengthening computing and main software skills as well as proper use
