from Tate Online
Media Matters
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Dealing with time-based media art in museums' permanent collections would necessarily involve the close collaboration of "curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers". Adding to Tate's latest initiative, there are 2 papers and a conference currently archived on Tate's web-site that is of related interest.

PIP LAURENSON
"Developing Strategies for the Conservation of Installations Incorporating Time-based Media: Gary Hill's Between Cinema and a Hard Place" (Tate Papers, Spring 2004)
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PIP LAURENSON
"The Management of Display Equipment in Time-based Media Installations" (Tate Papers, Spring 2005)
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Conference, 4 June 2005
"Curating, Immateriality, Systems: On Curating Digital Media"
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from Conservation, GCI Newsletter
Technical Art History
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The latest newsletter from the Getty Conservation Institute is featuring the emerging cross-disciplinary field of technical art history.

from Art Museum Network News
Smithsonian Receives $10 Million for the Lunder Conservation Center
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An update on the development of a visible conservation centre (see previous post) at the Smithsonian. The new centre, named Lunder Conservation Centre, will be housed in the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. It is projected that the renovation work currently underway at the museums and centre will be completed by July 2006.

from The Art Newspaper
Travel vandals: the Grand Tour has gone sour
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When the aim of sustaining cultural heritages is solely driven by commercial interests, inevitably, its becomes unsustainable. This is the dilemma facing listing (and also de-listing) cultural heritage monuments and sites from the World Heritage Sites list. Perhaps a more sensible approach, as one of the solutions proposed in the article, is to attend to the value and meaning of such experiences:

"[T]ourists should get better educated about where they are going so that they respect it more and get more out of it. Slower, better informed travel, with the readiness to put something back in the way of direct contribution to improving and protecting the experience is the way to be a tourist."

It could also be said that such a need for self-education and reciprocity extends to all cultural heritage "tourists", including visitors to museums and other cultural heritage institutions.

from The Telegraph
It knows where you are...
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An update on a previous post on a location-based multi-media device which has been specifically designed for enhancing the visitor experience of outdoor heritage sites. The combination of right design and accessible yet challenging content would be quintessential.