Big Stuff 2004, the inaugural Big Stuff conference, was held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. See below for the papers from BigStuff 2004.
The papers from this conference are also available at:
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/48295
This confernce had its own ISBN: 09751904 3 1
The ISSN number for the continuing conference series is ISSN 2207-2845.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Alison Wain – Introduction to proceedings
Steven Adams – Managing floating heritage: a decade of managing a fleet of historic vessels at the Australian National Maritime Museum
Alayne Alvis – Conserving “Big Stuff” – lessons learnt
Sarah Clayton – Making your own Mannequins
Sarah Clayton and Alison Wain – Digital images for LTO conservation
Clara Deck – Conservation of Big Stuff at The Henry Ford: past, present and future
Kornelius Goetz – Capabilities and Limitations of Museum Volunteers: Examples of Restoration Practice in Small Museums
John Griswold – Preserving the Orbiter: Stabilization, Disassembly, Relocation and Storage of an Historic Space Shuttle Mock-Up
David Hallam, David Thurrowgood and Col Ogilvie – Corrosion, wear and corrosive wear; the story of lubrication systems in large technology object storage and use
John Kemister – An identity crisis: Hawker Sea Fury FB11 VX730
Laura Kennedy – Dusty, neglected galleries? Not here!!!
Laura Kennedy – Pest control treatment of Chevrolet Ridemaster Deluxe DS, 1940
Chris Knapp – Professional conservators in practice: an introduction to the conservation of air and land transport collections
Bill Lang – Creating a modular storage system for large technology objects at the Australian War Memorial
Gillian Mitchell – Application of the Burra Charter to large technology objects: a freelance conservator’s experiences
Nigel Nolan and Ian Smith – A volunteer perspective
Col Ogilvie – Conservation: from a Tradesman’s point of view
Andrew Pearce – Avoiding that shrinking feeling: adopting a chemically unstable material for conservation
Andrew Pearce – A Spot of research: investigating the previous paint schemes of “G for George”
Paul Pounds – Wireless Remote Data Logging
David Thurrowgood and David Hallam – Preserving significance: Why the journey mattered more than the car
Alison Wain – Organising an effective maintenance plan for Big Stuff
Alison Wain – A well-planned operation
Alison Wain – LTO display maintenance sheet – AWM
John White – Conservation and large technological artefacts: a curatorial perspective
