Introduce participants to different categories of heritage materials, their historical contexts and distinguishing aspects.
Facilitate an understanding of different skill sets involved in the study, preservation and managing different categories of heritage materials.
Explore various aspects of collection care from preservation, conservation, assessment and environmental monitoring to digitisation and record-keeping.
Provide some skills in identifying potential owners and repositories of cultural heritage within the ITREBs’ jurisdictions and creating relationships with them.
Provide a hands-on experience of working with actual examples from the heritage materials held at the IIS.