Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)
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ILLUSTRATED ORAL REPORTS FOR AN INTERESTED AUDIENCE More than 600 invitation letters have been sent out including the stakeholders, the media, experts who have contributed to the work, Directors of museums/libraries and archives, Heads of Conservation workshops, colleagues, and profesional contacts. This exhibition letter includes the program following the Opening Ceremony of the exhibition: the qualified students give a paper on their diploma works for an interested audience. This has been always well visited and successful. Mentioning advocacy for conservation - this row of lecures serve it excellently. CONCLUSION Diploma works have a determining role in the academic training program for restorers. They serve to judge the students capabilities after five year training, to represent the school's success in achieving its mission statement and objectives, supplies the school with valuable references of the works done in the school. If added to this, the school applies a good advocacy, an exhibition and a lecture afternoon on the diploma works, informs the stakeholders, the local - and through foreign visitors - the world about the existence and acivity of the school. It informs the interested people about the importance, the mental work, application of science and practical methods in conservation/restoration. 150