Training in the Conservation of Paintings - Calouste Gulbenkian ...

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were actually appointed. In addition, Mr Ruhemann was
still working as a part-time consultant. Today the establishment
is twelve, including technical grades, craftsmen and
student trainees under the Government Temporary Training
Scheme (paragraph 24).
Also as a result of the Weaver Report, there was an immediate
increase in the staff and activities of the National
Gallery Scientific Department and a change in the functions
of the Scientific Advisory Committee, which, originally set
up to advise the Scientific Adviser, became in 1951 the
direct advisers of the Trustees on the scientific and technical
problems of conservation. The present establishment of the
Scientific Department, all grades including Mr Garry
Thomson, the Scientific Adviser, is five.
(b) Tate Gallery
The Tate Gallery also equipped a conservation studio and
the chief restorer, Mr Slabczynski, was appointed in 1955.
An additional restorer was appointed in 1956 and an assistant
in 1958. Today the establishment is thirteen, all grades,
including two trainee students under the Government Temporary
Training Scheme (paragraph 24).
(e) Victoria and Albert Museum
In 1958 the Victoria and Albert Museum consolidated the
workshops of all its departments, to form one department
under Mr N. Brommelle, who was appointed Keeper in
February 1960. The section dealing with the conservation
of paintings and drawings today has a staff of seven.
(d) National Galleries of Scotland
The National Galleries of Scotland have an establishment of
five for paintings and drawings, the Chief Restorer working
on a part-time basis with four full-time members of staff.
(e) National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum has an establishment of
three in its conservation studio for paintings.
(f) British Museum Print Room
The workshop for the conservation of prints and drawings
attached to the British Museum Print Room has an establishment
of five. All the department workshops in the British
Museum can turn to the British Museum Research Laboratory
for advice about conservation problems which may involve
fundamental scientific research.