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GOING FORWARD aid practicing conservators in specialising and
honing their conservation skills with regards to a
• Focus on achieving Year 4 deliverables for the Art specific material.
Conservation Initiative, which include completion of
• Collaborating with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
the remaining field surveys of smaller collections, and
to produce a first-of-its-kind Specifications Manual
scheduling and implementing three-month
for Built Heritage Conservation that lays down
conservation training courses in specific materials.
processes and rates for conservation work at heritage
The following have been planned for FY 2022-23:
sites and monuments.
Conservation of Paper (prints, drawings, and maps);
Paper (manuscripts and miniature paintings), natural • Providing online and secure access to over 10,000
history specimens, wooden objects and sculptures, digital oral histories from the 1947 Partition Archives
for researchers through month-long fellowships.
and wall paintings.

• Initiation of the project to
start a Master of Arts degree
in Art Conservation in
partnership with St. Xavier’s
College, Mumbai.

• Supporting the Kochi Biennale
Foundation for the Students’
Biennale 2022.
CHALLENGES
BEST FACED

PRACTICES

While the pandemic-related
• Designing and implementing the three-month restrictions were largely lifted

long training courses in conservation of specific during the year, the third wave has
materials to be held across the five partner impacted movement, and health,
institutes under the Art Conservation Initiative. during the last quarter of FY 22;
Designed to impart intensive, practical training in consequently, some activities have
conservation of specific materials (such as paper, been postponed.
oil paintings, wood, metals, etc.), these courses

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