Ceramics & Glass Group: The Beirut Glass Project - Reconstructing the Past to Build a New Future

Claire Cuyaubère

Objects Conservator (Ceramics, Glass, Enamels)

Claire Cuyaubère is an objects conservator who trained at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris and specializes in glass, ceramic and enamelled objects. For five years at the Freer/Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC, she treated Islamic ceramics, Ancient Near East archaeological artifacts, and East-Asian inorganic objects.

As a conservator in private practice now based in Paris, she works for various museums such as the Musée du Louvre, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée des Arts Décoratifs-Paris, Musée du Louvre-Lens, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, etc. In 2020 she led an emergency recovery project at the American University of Beirut Archaeological Museum, and two glass conservation campaigns in 2021 and 2022. She was the Beirut Glass Project conservator at the British Museum in spring 2022.

She teaches at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Ceramics and Glass Conservation, and also coordinates an Equal Opportunity Program.

Dr Duygu Çamurcuoğlu ACR

Senior Inorganic Objects Conservator, British Museum

Dr Duygu Camurcuoglu ACR, FIIC has completed her BA in Classical Archaeology in Istanbul University, Turkey. She has pursued her education at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London where she completed her MA and MSc in the Conservation for Archaeology and Museums programme in 2004, followed by a PhD in Material Science. She gained a post at the British Museum as a ceramics, glass and metals conservator whilst she worked as the head conservator for the renowned Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk (Turkey) for 8 seasons, supporting the site to gain ‘World Heritage Site’ status, as well as several students and colleagues through their career development.

Currently Duygu works as a Senior Inorganic Objects Conservator at the BM. Most recently she became the Lead Conservator for the Beirut Glass Project which is an international collaborative project between the BM and the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut. Duygu was also a part of the team who won Icon’s Nigel Williams Prize in 2019.

She just completed her 3 years work on the Icon Board of Trustees. She is also a Professional Accreditation assessor and mentor for Icon. She is well-connected both nationally and internationally and actively collaborates with international conservation institutions, such as IIC and ICOM-CC organising large scale conferences. She gives lectures for conservation students at various universities in the UK and abroad.