AEB_A12 Laboratory and conservation practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Eliška Trávníková, DiS. (lecturer)
Bc. Tereza Přichystalová, DiS. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Compulsory course in bachelor study.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 14 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Course description: Training in practical techniques of cleaning, conservation and restoration of archaeological artefacts, especially ceramics, but also metals and organic materials. The basics of drawing.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify the type of ceramic material and the method of its processing, the type of firing, the type of decoration and the application procedure;
- collect and clean fragments, inventory, record, glue and mend fragments;
- identify the type of metal and the appropriate conservation procedure.
Syllabus
  • (1-8: one-week workshop in Panská Lhota; 9-14: practical laboratory training in the Arne Nováka St.; 15: excursion to a professional conservation department of the Institute of Archaeological Heritage Brno)
  • 1. Introduction to the problem and basics of conservation methods for archaeology students.
  • 2. Conservation of iron artefacts and artefacts from non-ferrous metals.
  • 3. Conservation of artefacts from organic and problematic materials.
  • 4. Conservation of pottery and artefacts from precious metals.
  • 5.-8. Practical laboratory tuition in conservation of metal artefacts and assessment of the workshop results.
  • 9.-10. Practical laboratory training: washing and drying of ceramic fragments, gluing, mending and colouring of pottery.
  • 11.-12. Practical laboratory training: casting of small objects, preparation of moulds and plaster, moulding.
  • 13.-14. Practical laboratory training: the principles of processing of prehistoric finds, their classification and registration within individual settlement features.
  • 15. Excursion to a professional conservation department of the Institute of Archaeological Heritage organised at the end of the term, where the students will be familiarised with conservation practice in an archaeological institution specialised in rescue research.
Literature
  • WEIβ, G.: Keramik Lexikon, Praktisches Wissen griffbereit, , Haupt Verlag Bern.Stuttgart.Wien 2003, ISBN 3-258-05871-7
  • SELUCKÁ, A., GROSSMANOVÁ, H., MAZÍK, M.: Preventivní konzervace: moderní postupy a technologie, metodická příručka vydaná Jihomoravským krajem a technickým muzeem v rámci projektu „Porta culturae“, Brno 2014, 57 s.
  • Kolektiv autorů: Výkladový slovník z oborů keramiky, žáruvzdorných materiálů, skla a maltovin. Vyd. 1. ČSVTS- Silikátová společnost České republiky, Praha 2002, ISBN 80-02-01504-5
  • ACTON, L., SMITH, N.: Practical Ceramic Conservation, The Press Ltd Ramsbury 2003, 128 s., ISBN: 1861264836
  • BENEŠOVÁ, Jaroslava. Konzervování a restaurování kovů : ochrana předmětů kulturního dědictví z kovů a jejich slitin. Vyd. 1. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, Metodické centrum konzervace, 2011, 648 s. ISBN 9788086413709. info
  • RADA, Pravoslav. Keramika. Praha: Aventinum, 2007, 216 s. ISBN 9788086858456. info
  • KOPECKÁ, Ivana. Preventivní péče o historické objekty a sbírky v nich uložené. Praha: Larus press servis, 2002, 109 s. ISBN 80-86234-28-2. info
  • BUYS, Susan and Victoria OAKLEY. The conservation and restoration of ceramics. Repr. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002, ix, 243. ISBN 0750632194. info
  • Preventivní ochrana sbírkových předmětů. Edited by Petra Štefcová. Vydání druhé. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2001, 62 stran. ISBN 8070361298. info
Teaching methods
practical work with archeological material in a laboratory
Assessment methods
Teaching: 2 seminar hours per week
Assessment: credit for practical work in the seminar
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Jedna seminární skupina - max 12 studentů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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