Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)

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GUIDELINES TO DIPLOMA WORKS

A Guidelines (Fig. 1.) was prepared, first in 1992, for helping the students to formulate the written text of their yearly projects and this was combined already with the Guidelines for Diploma Works. To hand in the description of the yearly projects proved to be a good means to prepare the students to write their diploma works at the end of their studies. This guideline have been updated from time to time.

Fig. 1. The title page of the Guidelines for Reports on the Diploma Works and the Reports of the Yearly Conservation/Restoration Projects. Version from

1998.

MAGYAR KÉPZŐMŰVÉSZETI FŐISKOLA ÉS MAGYAR NEMZETI MÚZEUM EGYETEMI TÁRGYRESTAURÁTOR SZAK

TANÁCSOK

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VIZSGAMÜNKA, DIPLOMAMUNKA MEGÍRÁSÁHOZ

Timárné Balázsv Ágnes 1996

1. Guideline for writing the yearly projects and diploma works

The main points of these guidelines: Contents, Acknowledgements to the whole (practical and written) work, Introduction (describing the expectations of the Diploma Committee and the owner):

1. Description of the object (including its measurements, function in history, art history, ethnography, etc, and in its whole history);

2. Technological investigtion;

3. Condition report (including signs of previous mending or conservations),

4. Material investigation (including products of deterioration);

5. The process of making the con- servation/restoration plans (using the conclusions described in points 1 to 4, in the specialist literature, and in the consultations with different experts (arguments for the final plan.);

6. The process of conservation/re- storation;

7. The process of making a replica (if there is);

8. Summary of the work;

9. Time and costs of the conservaton/restoration;

10. Advices for the further handlig an environment of the object;

11. References;

12. Used literature;

13. Appendix.

The most difficult point to write is usualy point 5: the process of making the conservation/restoration plans. Here the Diploma Committee wants to be convinced about the fact the the work had been prepared throroughfully, the “mental work” behind the taken decision had been carried out properly, and each planned steps of the work had had a good argument for.

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