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Icon welcomes individuals and organisations from all backgrounds who identify with the conservation and preservation of our cultural heritage.  Our membership embraces the entire conservation community as well as members of the public who are keen to learn more or show their support for conservation work.

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Welcome to the website of Icon, the lead voice for the conservation of cultural heritage in the UK. Icon's membership embraces the wider conservation community, incorporating not only professional conservators in all disciplines, but all others who share a commitment to improving understanding of and access to our cultural heritage.
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Icon welcomes new HLF strategy
The Heritage Lottery Fund, which has invested over £4bn in heritage projects across the UK, has just announced its forward funding strategy for 2008-2013.
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Planning a Positive Future

A seminar, organised jointly by Icon and the Textile Conservation Centre, will be held in London on 12 June to discuss the future of conservation education.

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Conservation with a Light Touch

painted-column-324x205.jpgNew technology is making it possible for ever more imaginative solutions to be found as conservators search for ways to both stabilise and preserve the original material of an artefact and reveal its ‘original glory’ without damaging it further.  Recent news from Rome is that light technology will help us achieve this in a bold and exciting way on a world-famous monument. Next year, Trajan’s column in Rome will be ‘repainted’ with light beams.

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Scarce Skills, Weak Standards: The Future of Our Built Heritage

wallace_statue_dryburgh.jpgOver two-thirds of building work on pre-1919 buildings is being carried out by people without the right skills and materials.  Likewise of the half million architects, engineers, surveyors, conservation officers and other professionals working in the UK, only 507 are building conservation-accredited.  These are the stark findings of two reports just published by the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) revealing the scale of our challenge in preserving our built heritage. 

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New Conservation Guidelines from English Heritage
conservation2.jpg English Heritage has published its Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance, setting out for the first time the fundamental propositions which underpin its policy and approach to the conservation of the historic environment.   Designed primarily for the guidance of English Heritage staff, Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance will doubtless serve as an important resource for the conservation community more widely.  One of the sections is devoted to identifying and explaining the different values – aesthetic, evidential, communal and historical - that make historic places special to people.
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New Internship Opportunities

ellin_belton_2.jpgIcon is offering 10 new work-based internships starting this September as part of the 4-year scheme supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.  We are pleased to advertise the third year of this innovative scheme for broadening access to careers in heritage conservation and diversifying its workforce. Many of these placements are aimed at new entrants to conservation from arts, sciences, crafts or wider heritage-related backgrounds.

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Fancy a Stroll Around Pompeii?

pompeii.jpgGrowing numbers of tourists and visitors can pose serious problems for many fragile historic sites. The conservation of valuable documents in archives has for some time increasingly depended on the creation of digital surrogate copies, but the challenges surrounding the creation of a digital surrogate of an entire ancient city have proved too daunting until now.  This week, it will be possible for the first time to - literally - take a stroll around virtual Pompeii.  

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Launch of Collections Trust

ct-logo2.gifOn 9 April a new, independent organisation dedicated to the care and conservation of collections was launched - Collections Trust.  The aim of the Trust is to deliver programmes which help people connect to culture, and which enable people working in cultural heritage to improve the quality of their services. 

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