1. programme
7-8-9 november 2010

2. partners
welcome
On behalf of the Netherlands Registrars Group (NRG) we
are delighted to welcome you to the 7th European Registrars
Conference. The conference programme, with its theme
Bein’ Green, features an interesting range of keynotes,
sessions, networking opportunities and social events. We
anticipate that ERC 2010 will be packed with engaging and
informative discussions and exchanges on how hard it is
bein’ green.
The conference location at the Concertgebouw puts you
in the heart of our beautiful city with the Rijksmuseum,
Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum only a
stone’s throw away.
A conference of this magnitude does not happen without the
hard work of many individuals. We are greatly appreciative
of the countless hours and tireless efforts of the organizing
working groups and the large number of volunteers. The
conference is also fortunate to have a great number of
sponsors whose material support is making this conference
happen.
No conference without delegates and it is to all of you to
whom we wish to extend our sincere thanks for contributing
to what we hope will be a very successful event.
Welcome to Amsterdam and ERC 2010.
Cindy Zalm
Chair, Netherlands Registrars Group (NRG)
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3. programme 7 & 8 november
s u n d a y, 7 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0 m o n d a y, 8 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0
Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 10
17.00 - 18.30 Private viewing of The Temporary Stedelijk Grote Zaal
at the Stedelijk Museum from 09.00 Registration and coffee
Stedelijk Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 13 09.45 - 10.05 Musical intermezzo
This event is sponsored by the Stedelijk Museum 10.05 - 10.10 Welcome
Cindy Zalm, chair Netherlands Registrars Group
While work continues on the renovation and expansion of the 10.10 - 10.25 Introduction
Stedelijk Museum, The Temporary Stedelijk brings art, artists and Michiel Nijhoff, conference chair day 1
the public back into the museum with two major exhibition projects:
Taking Place and Monumentalism, showing work by artists such as 10.25 - 11.00 Keynote
Roman Ondak, On Kawara, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Museums, Registrars and Sustainability
Job Koelewijn, Renzo Martens and William Leavitt. Maurice Davies
18.30 - 19.30 Private viewing of The Masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum 11.00 - 11.30 Keynote
Rijksmuseum, Jan Luykenstraat 1 Air Freight Safety
This event is sponsored by the Rijksmuseum European Legislation on Air Freight,
Air Freight Safety and Cargo Screening
19.30 - 23.00 Welcome reception, buffet and registration René Italiaander
at the Van Gogh Museum TSA (Transportation Security Administration) in the USA
Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7 Scott Pfeifer
This event is sponsored by ICEFAT, the Van Gogh Museum and
the Rijksmuseum 11.30 - 12.25 Keynote
A Carbon-Neutral Research Centre for Beauty
Randy Klinger
Entry to the museums The colours in the programme
only for registered delegates correspond with the colours
with a confirmation ticket on the floor plan on page 12-13
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4. 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 15.45 - 16.45 Grote Zaal Solistenfoyer
Session Workshop
12.30 - 16.45 Champagnebar and Balkonfoyer The Greening of Fine Art Registrar, a Reference
Networking sessions with sponsors Transportation: Description
What Colour is your Crate? Herma Hofmeijer
Greg Gahagan, Klaus Hillman
and Jonathan Schwartz Dirigentenfoyer
14.00 - 15.00 Grote Zaal Solistenfoyer Session
Session Session Pleinfoyer Registrars at the Centre of
Sustainability and Climate New Approaches to Museum Workshop Collections Mobility
Control in Museums Depots Tracking the Collection: Marjolein Cremer
Bart Ankersmit Hans-Ewald Schneider Integrating Location
Sustainable Storage as Result Administration in Your
Pleinfoyer of a Preventive Approach Adlib Database
Workshop Wouter Hijnberg and Judith van Gent, Annelies de Mey
Tracking the Collection: Marco Martens and René van de Heuvel
Integrating Location
Administration in Your Dirigentenfoyer
Adlib Database Session 16.50 - 17.00 Grote Zaal
Judith van Gent, Green, Red, Black: Analysis from Wrap up
Annelies de Mey and the Going Green Survey Michiel Nijhoff
René van de Heuvel Stephen Mellor
evening events
15.00 - 15.45 Coffee and tea break
Odeon, Singel 460
19.00 - 22.00 Buffet reception
22.00 - 01.00 Party
The traditional shippers party is sponsored by John Nurminen Prima,
Kortmann and Hizkia Van Kralingen
Entry to the Odeon only for
registered delegates with badge
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5. programme 9 november
t u e s d a y, 9 n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 0
Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 10
Grote Zaal 14.00 - 15.00 Grote Zaal Solistenfoyer
from 09.15 Registration for sessions and coffee Session Session
10.00 - 10.05 Welcome Towards a new European Will Being Green Influence
Cindy Zalm, chair Netherlands Registrars Group Organisation: Sustaining the Fine Art insurance?
10.05 - 10.15 Introduction Knowledge of European Stephan Zilkens
Paul Spies, conference chair day 2 Collection Mobility The Loan is Insured =
a panel discussion Green Light?
10.15 - 10.25 Keynote Cees Kortleve
Lending to Europe: an update Pleinfoyer
Frank Bergevoet Workshop Dirigentenfoyer
Tracking the Collection: Session
10.25 - 11.25 Keynote Integrating Location From Manual Inventory Books to
The Art of Transitions to Become Green Administration in Your Digitized Inventory Records:
Derk Loorbach Adlib Database A Preliminary Exploration of the
Judith van Gent, National Palace Museum, Taiwan
11.25 - 12.25 Keynote Annelies de Mey and Pang-Yen Cheng
Procedures at Museum Ludwig, Cologne René van de Heuvel
Beatrix Schopp
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee and tea break
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
12.30 - 16.30 Champagnebar and Balkonfoyer
Networking sessions with sponsors
The colours in the programme
correspond with the colours
on the floor plan on page 12-13
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6. 15.30 - 16.30 Grote Zaal Solistenfoyer evening event
Session Session Allard Pierson Museum and Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam,
Vibrrrrrrrrrrations. How to Find a Needle in a Oude Turfmarkt 127-129
The Impact of Vibration Haystack?
on Works of Art Implementation of RFID as an 17.30 - 20.00 Farewell reception and private viewing of the exhibitions:
Bill Wei Improvement in the Management Alexander’s legacy at the Allard Pierson Museum and
of a Scientific Collection: Rebels with a cause. 75 years of IISH at the Special Collections
Pleinfoyer the Case of Institut Català de
Entry only for registered delegates with badge
Session Paleontologia, Barcelona
Energy-optimized Rebirth: Laura Celià
The Renovation of the Experience with RFID Technology
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in at Apice in Florence
Ludwigshafen am Rhein Laura Reina
Reinhard Spieler
Dirigentenfoyer
Session
An International Concern: The Bizot Group Questionnaire and the
V&A’s Approach to Becoming a Greener Museum
Sandra Smith
16.35 - 16.45 Grote Zaal
Presentation of the award winning Bein’ Green project
16.45 - 16.55 Reports from the European registrars groups
ERC 2012 - the next venue
16.55 - 17.10 Wrap up
What have we learned? Summary and conclusions
Max Meijer
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7. concertgebouw floor plan
Ground floor First floor
A Grote Zaal
B Spiegelzaal 5 Cloakroom (unguarded) 5 Cloakroom (unguarded)
C Julianafoyer 6 Staircases to First floor 6 Staircases to First floor
1 Main entrance
D Beatrixfoyer 7 Elevator to Grote Zaal H Dirigentenfoyer 7 Elevator to Grote Zaal
2 Entrance hall and
E Zuidfoyer information desk 8 Staircase to Pleinfoyer I Solistenfoyer 8 Staircase to Pleinfoyer
F Noordfoyer 3 Terrace 9 Elevator J Pleinfoyer 9 Elevator
G Champagnebar 4 Cloakroom (guarded) Emergency exit K Balkonfoyer Emergency exit
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8. conference chairs and speakers
Bart Ankersmit Laura Celià
Bart Ankersmit is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Laura Celià has a degree in Biology from the University of the Balearic
Cultural Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. In 1996, after completing doctoral Islands (2002) and a master in Management of Cultural Heritage from
research at the University of Amsterdam, he started research on pre- the University of Barcelona (2008). In 2005 she graduated in Teaching
ventive conservation of metal collections. This study has set out to measure various Museography (UB). At the same time she received a scholarship at the Institute of
harmful gases in the indoor museum, the transport of those gases from source to Palaeontology. She has participated in several excavation campaigns in Mallorca,
object and the extent to which showcases affect this transport. Since 2006 much atten- Catalonia, Castellon and Granada. Since 2007, she is the curator of the ICP collection
tion is paid to the museum interior. The knowledge developed in late 2008 led to new and currently combines collection management at the Institut Català de Paleontologia
climate guidelines. Developments in this area have been made possible by a covenant with her doctoral thesis on the program Management of Culture and Heritage
between several institutions that have an interest and responsibility in this matter. (University of Barcelona) under the leadership of Ph Dr. Llorenç Prats, based on the
problems with the management of vertebrate paleontological heritage in Catalonia.
Frank Bergevoet
Frank Bergevoet is advisor/programme coordinator Museometry at the P a n g - Ye n C h e n g
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. He has Pang-Yen Cheng is assistant registrar at the Registration and
extensive experience in the broad field of collection management. Conservation Department of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in
In 2004, during the Netherlands presidency of the EU, he was conference manager Taipei, Taiwan and the chair of Collection Management System SIG,
for the international meeting of museum experts ‘Museum Collections on the Move’ in Museum Computer Network, Taiwan Chapter. He graduated from Fu Jen Catholic
The Hague and worked with great passion as selection manager on the development University and Taipei National University of the Arts with two MA degrees both
of de-accessioning tools for the museum sector. Frank is currently working on a in Museum Studies and Chinese Art History. Presently, he succeeded to his Ph.D.
new policy line for ICN: museometry. Museometry is all about facts and figures on programme in Graduate Institute of Multi-Culture Education, National Dong-Hua
collections management in museums. University. He used to work at Digital Archives Project of Chinese Antiquities at
NPM from 2001 to 2006 and also experienced an internship at the Asian Department,
Cleveland Museum of Art in the summer of 2006. His research interests include
Don Gianmatteo Caputo museum collection management, Chinese art history (Han dynasty art and Cloisonné),
Don Gianmatteo Caputo is director of Ufficio dei Beni Culturali del as well as museum multicultural education.
Patriarcato and of Museo Diocesano, both in Venice. He graduated in
architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Archiettura Venice and his
field of study includes theology and philosophy. He co-operates with the CEI
(Conferenza Episcopale Italiana) as scientific supervisor of the IT inventory of
ecclesiastic cultural assets. He is also curator of exhibitions of sacred and
contemporary art and has published essays for art catalogues and other publications.
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9. M a r j o l e i n C r e m e r ( o n b e h a l f o f A g n e s We i j ) Greg Gahagan
Marjolein Cremer is project coordinator international affairs at the Greg Gahagan is the Vice President and operations manager of Ship/
Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland). Heritage in Art International, a museum quality fine arts transportation company with
relation to Europe and the Foreign Visitors programme are subjects offices in San Francisco and Denver. He joined the management team at
that she works on. She has a BA and MA in Arts, Policy and Management of visual Ship/Art in 1991 and now oversees the day-to-day operations of the company including
arts and media arts from the University of Groningen. Since 2008 she is involved in its environmental program. Greg is the chairman of the ICEFAT Green Committee and
the EU project ‘Collections Mobility 2.0’. is dedicated to establishing environmental sustainability within the fine arts industry.
A s t r i d We i j Judith van Gent
Astrid Weij is programme manager of cultural heritage from an Judith van Gent is head of Documentation at the Amsterdam Historical
international perspective at the Netherlands Institute for Heritage Museum and in this position responsible for the collection management
(Erfgoed Nederland). Heritage in relation to Europe and mutual system. She is an art historian with a specialization in automation. In the
cultural heritage are subjects that she works on. She has a BA and MA in museology. 90’s she worked on various digitization projects (at the Netherlands Institute for Art
She played a significant role in setting collections mobility on the European agenda History, The Hague and Radboud University, Nijmegen) and as a cultural information
when she was policy advisor in international affairs at the Netherlands Ministry of advisor at Bureau IMC in Rotterdam. She also did research on the work and life of
Education, Culture and Science (2001-2007). Bartholomeus van der Helst, which will result in a dissertation this year.
Maurice Davies René van de Heuvel
Maurice Davies is head of policy and communication at the Museums Rene van den Heuvel started his career at Datahouse, a systems
Association in the UK. He’s held a variety of other roles at the Museums integration company, as a software programmer. During his long
Association including editor of Museums Journal and deputy director. career at Adlib Information Systems he has been involved in several
He recently led the Museums Association’s work on sustainability and museums. departments and activities including application engineering, help desk, training,
In the past few years his work has included: the illicit trade in cultural property, consultancy and application development. Currently he is the International Sales
repatriation, human remains in museums, aspects of the MA’s Collections for the Manager for Adlib and plays a key role in the development of applications.
Future report, disposal of collections, entry to and diversity of the museum workforce,
and research into the impact of major lottery projects on museum visiting in London.
He has a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute, University of London
and a first degree in pure mathematics from the University of Warwick. He’s also
been a curator at Manchester Art Gallery and a Turner Scholar at Tate.
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10. Wo u t e r H i j n b e r g René Italiaander
Wouter Hijnberg studied Preventive Conservation at the Reinwardt René Italiaander started his career in the air freight industry in 1986 as
Academy in Amsterdam. He is now managing director and owner of an export employee for an airline. After this challenging job, he joined
Helicon conservation support. Helicon developed a concept for a a shipping agent for general cargo. In 1999, he joined the museum
sustainable storage for cultural heritage as a result of a preventive approach. logistics industry at Gerlach Art Packers & Shippers. René started as an exhibition
This concept is not only an improvement on the conservation of collections but it coordinator and worked his way up through the jobs of team leader and office
is better for the environment and is lower in cost than a traditional building. manager to become Director of Operations, responsible for the Dutch operations
In 2012 Helicon will open the first storage built according to this concept. at John Nurminen Prima. In August 2008, Gerlach merged with John Nurminen Prima
and all their offices have been operating under the name of John Nurminen Prima
since 1 October 2010.
Klaus Hillman
In 1979 Klaus Hillman founded NADA, a small business specializing Randy Klinger
in the transport of works of art. In 1986 the growing company was Randy Klinger is founder and director of Moray Art Centre. He has
newly formed under the name of TANDEM. Today Tandem is one of been an artist since early childhood and has been exhibiting in Italy
Europe’s busiest art shipping companies and has established a very reliable shuttle for the past 18 years, and more recently in Japan. Born in New York,
network throughout Germany and Western Europe. Klaus became a member of the he graduated from The Cooper Union with honours. He began teaching art in 2002,
ICEFAT Green Committee in order to promote the sense of responsibility and when he moved to Scotland and ran a small studio for 15 years before founding the
ecological activity within his industry. Moray Art Centre. In 2007, as part of his ambitions as an artist, Randy raised one
million pounds, mostly from inspired individuals, and opened a research centre for
beauty to the public, with exhibition partners including the British Museum, the
Herma Hofmeijer Courtauld Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland.
Herma Hofmeijer is process supervisor constructions at the Museum
of National History in Arnhem. In her previous function as director of Cees Kortleve
the Netherlands Association of National Museums (2004-2010) she Cees Kortleve is insurance broker. For several decades he was
represented the national museums in various important issues, such as the employed by the insurance department of ABN AMRO. His last position
negotiations with the unions concerning salaries and terms of employment for with this company was manager of the property department. In 1988
museum workers. This resulted in the creation of reference function descriptions he became involved in art insurance and took care of the insurances of museum
and job structures for museum employees. In 2008-2009 Herma Hofmeijer created, collections and national and international loans to major art exhibitions, of which
in close cooperation with the Netherlands Registrars Group, a function description the value in some cases exceeded several billions Euro. In 1995 he became director
for the museum registrar. To do this, it was necessary to formulate the specific of Aon Artscope Netherlands and chairman of Aon Artscope Europe. During his
competences necessary to be a professional registrar. The result is that the museum career Cees has been a member as well as chairman of various committees in
registrar is now accepted as an official function within the Dutch museum organisation. the insurance market and advised the Dutch Government in setting up the Dutch
Indemnity Scheme.
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11. Derk Loorbach management functions. Since 2007 he is co-owner of TiMe (Timmer & Meijer)
Derk Loorbach is researcher at the Dutch Research Institute for Amsterdam. TiMe Amsterdam provides services to the cultural sector and the creative
Transitions (DRIFT) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus industry: strategies and content as well as implementation in the form of consultancy,
University Rotterdam. Within his research, he focuses on the research and concept development. TiMe Amsterdam’s main clients are museums,
development of transition management in theory and practice. Central theme in heritage institutions and governments.
his PhD-research is the development of an integrated framework for structuring
transition management activities and for organizing transition management processes.
A central concept is the ‘transition-arena’. Transition management can be described Stephen Mellor
as a new governance-model based on complex systems’ thinking and is aimed at Stephen Mellor has been the Exhibitions Co-ordinator at Tate Modern,
facilitating and directing processes of societal change in the direction of sustainability. London (9 years). During this time he had responsibility for exhibition
production and logistics, schedules, design, registration, budgets,
touring and contracts and more. Previously he has been Exhibitions Manager at
Marco Martens the Art Gallery of Western Australia (13 years); Scenery Designer at BBC Television
Marco Martens studied Building Physics at the Eindhoven University of (10 years); and Display Manager at the London Design Centre (4 years). Stephen
Technology. In 2005 he started a PhD study on indoor climate in various has been a member of the Steering Committee of the International Exhibition
Dutch museums. The main topic of his PhD is to assess conservational Organisers Group, the London Exhibition Organisers Group and the UK Sustainable
properties of indoor climates out of measurement data and to predict these properties Exhibitions Group. Contact: stephen.mellor@chalkface.net.au
using simulation. Most Dutch museums are located in old buildings. To improve
conservational properties of these buildings, the indoor climate is modified using
various climate systems. Also newly built museums and storage buildings rely to a Annelies de Mey
large extent on complicated systems. Modern building materials however give us the Annelies de Mey received a master in Art Sciences from the University
possibility to create optimal conservational properties without using climate systems. of Ghent in 2002. In 2003 she obtained the postgraduate degree
A good building envelope and some regulations and limitations in building use make Conservation Employee from the University College in Ghent. In
sure the climate is suitable even for storing delicate objects. A green storage facility is addition, she completed the course Cultural Management at the University of Antwerp.
therefore within reach. From 2005 until 2007 she worked as registrar for the City of Antwerp. In 2007 she
was the Cultural Policy Coordinator of the City of Aalter. Since 2008 Annelies is
Relocation Coordinator at the Museum at the Stream (MAS) in Antwerp. In this
Max Meijer capacity she organises and supervises the registration (in Adlib), barcode labelling,
Max Meyer studied at the Reinwardt Academy in Leiden, as well as a pest-treatments, packaging, transportation and storage of a maritime, an ethnological
number of years Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. and a folklore collection. She was also closely involved with the construction plans for
He completed a large number of courses in marketing, management the new depot facilities.
and strategy and has been working in the museum sector since 1982 in various
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12. Michiel Nijhoff Enrico Rizzi
Michiel Nijhoff is art historian and librarian and at present head of the Enrico Rizzi is project manager of Zucchetti Spa, one of the most
library and collection registration at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. important Italian groups in the ICT sector. His main task is to provide
From 1988-2002 he worked at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in careful analysis of the clients’ needs, to coordinate and manage
Rotterdam, first as assistant librarian and from 1997 as head of this library. In 2002 he projects and to supervise integration of IT systems.
became head of the library of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and in 2006 head of
the library and collection registration. Michiel was active as member of the Art Section
of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) and chairman of ARLIS Hans-Ewald Schneider
(Art Libraries Society / The Netherlands). In 2001 he made the compilation film Hans-Ewald Schneider is the managing partner of Hasenkamp
‘The librarian in the movies’ and in 2006 won the Victorine Van Schaik essay price. (4th generation) with headquarters in Cologne-Frechen. Hasenkamp
He publishes regularly on subjects concerning museum libraries, art history and film. is the leading European logistics service provider for fragile and
precious goods. After graduating with a degree in Economics, he worked for the
American lease company CTI (Container Transport International) before he changed
Scott Pfeifer to the future leaders programme of Kaufhof AG for the period of two years. In 1981 he
Scott Pfeifer is Vice President of Masterpiece International. He has joined Hasenkamp International Transport GmbH and became partner of the company
a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in in 1991. Furthermore he is a member of various business councils and board member
Transportation/Logistics from Iowa State University and an MBA in of several national and international associations.
International Business from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has been in the fine
art transportation business for 23 years, the last 16 with Masterpiece International.
Scott will discuss the origin of the regulations in the USA, current rules and Beatrix Schopp
requirements, and the practical realities of the programme as it pertains to our Beatrix Schopp is registrar at Museum Ludwig in Cologne. She has been
daily shipping. working for the City of Cologne since 1984, at the Museums of Cologne
since 1985 and at the Administration Department of Museum Ludwig
since 1996. She has been a member of Registrars Deutschland since 2004. Being
Laura Reina the first registrar at Museum Ludwig since 2004 she has had the chance to put her
Laura Reina is coordination manager of the APICE group, an Italian extensive experience with international loan standards and requirements into practice
benchmark in transportation of works of art. After having worked in and to work out new ideas in her daily work. In her conference presentation Beatrix will
the fine art transport industry since 1989, she joined Apice at the reflect on what it means to be a registrar in a museum for modern art in Germany.
beginning of 2009 when the company was founded. Her main responsibilities include
coordination of the Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice offices, as well as planning,
budgeting for national and international exhibitions, and business development at
international level.
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13. Jonathan Schwartz Paul Spies
Jonathan Schwartz founded Atelier 4 in 1989 as an art transport Paul Spies graduated in 1986 (cum laude) in Art History and Classical
company focusing on the burgeoning contemporary art market. Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1987 he founded
By 2002 he expanded Atelier 4’s capabilities as an IATA agent and together with two colleagues D’ARTS, a bureau for art historical advice
customs broker augmenting its climate control storage, trucking and bespoke crating and organisation. Before D’ARTS he worked as a producer and consultant for many
departments. Jonathan’s involvement in the practical application of environmental museums in Amsterdam and beyond, specialising in: museum concepts, exhibitions,
responsibility is shared by his staff in both the New York and Miami branches of publications and publicity campaigns. In 2006 he and his associate Rob van Zoest
Atelier 4. became directors of the Foundation Opening Soestdijk Palace. In 2009 Paul became
director of the Amsterdam Historical Museum and Museum Willet-Holthuysen.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith was trained at The Institute of Archaeology, London, B i l l We i
in Archaeological Conservation and Material Science. After graduation Bill Wei is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural
she worked as an on-site conservator in Syria. She joined the Heritage (ICN) in Amsterdam. He has a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering
Department of Conservation at the British Museum, specialising in ceramics and from Princeton University (USA 1977) and in 1983 received his doctorate
glass conservation. In 1992 she became Head of the Ceramics and Glass Section in materials (metal) studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA).
and was promoted to Head of the Inorganic Materials Group in 1997. In January Until late 2001 he worked primarily for the aerospace, rail and energy sector. Bill is
2003 Sandra joined the V&A as Head of Conservation. For the past two months working with ICN since 1998 in the Knowledge Group and researches among others
she has been working with the directors of the Van Gogh Museum and the V&A to the influence of vibration on sensitive objects.
interpret the results of the Bizot Groups questionnaire ‘How Green is your museum?’
Stephan Zilkens
Reinhard Spieler Stephan Zilkens is managing partner at Zilkens GmbH Insurance. Zilkens
Reinhard Spieler studied art history, archaeology and literature in is a specialist for risk hedging in small and medium-sized companies, in
Munich, Paris and Berlin and received a PhD in 1997 in Munich particular for the sectors renewable energies, logistics and art. Owing to
(“The triptychs of Max Beckmann”). From 2002-2006 he was (founding) many years of experience and close contacts with reputable insurance companies he
director of Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf/Bern in Switzerland and is since 2007 acquired a broad insurance portfolio. He is a specialist in the area of art insurance in
director of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein. He is also lecturer all its facets.
at the universities of Düsseldorf, Berne and Heidelberg as well as at the Düsseldorf
Academy of Fine Arts. He has numerous publications and exhibitions on modern and
contemporary art to his name.
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15. information
Concertgebouw Badge
Concertgebouwplein 10 Your official name badge must be worn at
1071 LN Amsterdam all times, as it is your entry to all sessions
Tel. +31 (0)20 5730573 and social functions.
www.concertgebouw.nl
The Concertgebouw is situated
on Museum Square and is easily
reached by public transport (tram 2
and 5). There is a taxi rank next to
the main entrance of the building.
The Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum
and Van Gogh Museum are
also located on Museum Square.
Odeon
Singel 460
1017 AW Amsterdam
Tel. +31 (0)20 5218555
www.odeontheater.nl
Allard Pierson Museum
and Special Collections of
the University of Amsterdam
Oude Turfmarkt 127 - 129
1012 GC Amsterdam
Tel. + 31 (0)20 5257300
www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl
www.uba.uva.nl/bbc