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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 Education & Skills Strategy

The consultation phase for Icon's UK Conservation Education Strategy is now complete. A launch date is being arranged for Spring 2012  Read more...

 
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New Internship at English Heritage

Icon is pleased to be advertising a new Internship in Preventive Conservation Science at English Heritage starting in June  Read more...


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NECT's Heritage Skills Initiative bursary placements
nect_logo.pngNorth of England Civic Trust are currently recruiting for eight full-time and one part-time traineeships for their 2012-13 intake of Engineering HSI trainees. For more information about individual placements, or to download the application form, see the NECT website .
 
Interns E-Bulletins on website
bulletin_object1.pngIcon's colourful monthly E-Bulletins - Interns News - outlining news and reflections from Icon Interns, supervisors and regional co-ordinators are now all uploaded onto the website under the Internship pages ;  take a look! You need to be an Icon member to receive the bulletins, so do join us via the Membership pages.
 
New interns blog post - Plastics, preservation and prosthetic limbs
margaret.jpgMargaret Smith is a current Icon Intern in Conservation Science, working across a variety of analytical projects for four partners: University of Glasgow, National Museums Scotland, Glasgow Life and the University of Strathclyde. The first three months were spent at the analytical research labs of the Conservation and Analytical Research Section at National Museums Scotland - read more about Margaret's experience here .
 
New interns blog post - feathers

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Lucie Graham is a current Icon Intern based at the Natural History Museum. Read her review of the recent Feather conservation workshop held at Norwich Castle:

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Lords debate NPPF
heritage_alliance.pngOn 27 October at 2pm the House of Lords’ Grand Committee debate the controversial National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Icon's partner Heritage Alliance delivered its briefing to Peers on the NPPF a couple of days ago; you can read it here.
 
Exploring The National Archives
newsitem_tna.jpgOn the 5th September a group of Icon interns visited the Collections Care department at the National Archives. Led by book and paper conservation intern Lindsey Gibson and her supervisor Linda Eells, the focus of the day was on preservation and collections management activities. The group were given a tour of the archives, before a series of presentations and discussions covering topics such as risk management, environmental monitoring and pest prevention. Click here to find out more.
 

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