Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)
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so does the lecturer room. It is not situated in the main traffic lines of the inner city, so one has had to make a little effort to go there. This explains why mainly specialists came to the invitation letter of a three days show of the objects and written material of the diploma works. In 1996 a great number of textile and goldsmiths objects were restored for the Museum of Applied Arts, basically cost-free. Katalin E. Nagy Senior Textile Conservator suggested to her director that the museum could show its gratefulness for these works by providing a room for a month exhibition of these diploma works. The museum generously accepted the idea. The first exhibition of the dipoma works in one of the biggest and architectually most pritty museum with the title “Saved Treasures ’96” was in 1996. And what a big change of visitors and of success! The exhibition was opened by the Head of Museum Collections in the Ministry of Culture. This was especially nice, not only for the words he said about the training program but also for him, whose Department has had yearly contributed to the training program with a considerable amount of money. Finally, he had the opportunity to see the end results. Countless TV and Radio programs and reports including reports in a lot of newspapers with trainers, lecturers, and qualifying students served to raise the interest of visitors for the exhibiton and the importance of conservation of museum/valuable objects. Then we could experience what is the effect of such exhibition on the stakeolders, sponsors, the media, colleagues, the whole profession, as well as on average visitors. We helped the visitors with well planned posters behind the restored pieces put in showcases. Each poster included photos, figures and explanation texts. Poster 1 dealt with the object itself, Poster 2 was dedicated to the technological and materials investigations, results and conclusions deduced from the results, Poster 3, and 4 gave an overview on the process of conservation. At the entrance there was a tableau of the photos of the qualified students' and a description of their professional carrier in and outside the training program. 2. Detail of the “Saved Treasures ’97” exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts 148
