Summary of the Proceedings and Papers Presented at - World ...

examples of best conservation practices presented during
the meetings and site visits, and after having participated
in the roundtable and general discussion, we would be able
to agree upon an open list of proven solutions and most
promising directions in archaeological conservation to be
pursued in the Vesuvian region and indeed elsewhere. The
present Summary of the papers given and the “open list” of
conclusions and recommendations, or ideas and principles,
developed during the course of the Symposium provides an
opportunity to further define best conservation practices,
both current and future.
In closing, I would like to thank Prof. Pietro Giovanni Guzzo
and his office that has served as such a generous and kind
partner to WMF over the past several years, and whose wise
guidance has been valued by all. I would like to thank the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, who made the Kress Pompeii
Conservation Project possible, and whose dedicated officers
make it the most actively interested foundation of its kind
at Pompeii. Finally, I must thank Gaetano Palumbo, Director
of Archaeological Conservation for the World Monuments
Fund in Paris, for his and his staff’s hard work in organizing
the conference.
On behalf of the World Monuments Fund in New York,
I wish each and every one of the participants in all their diverse
disciplines every success in their pursuit of new solutions
and the exchange of best practices toward the conservation
of the archaeological sites in the shadow of Mt.
Vesuvius.