The blog is meant to showcase conservation work undertaken within the Conservation Department of the Applied Museum Studies Program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada.
The site will profile community conservation partnerships, conservation treatment and preventive conservation research undertaken by students within the AMS program.
It is hoped that this Web 2.0 approach will assist the AMS program in engaging counterparts in the cultural sector and provide an alternative platform to profile student and program successes.
Review our profile story on the Conservation Treatment of the first flag to be flown by a 
Canadian forces serving in WWI in LeTourquet France, 1914.
Visitors are strongly encouraged to provide comments and feedback.
Coming this fall………guest student authors!!!
This is very cool stuff! I didn’t even know this program existed before. Thanks for sharing.
Kimberley
Kim,
Thanks for the feedback!
The Applied Museum Studies program is in fact one of the oldest post secondary museum studies programs in Canada, 36 years young this year! We have around 110 full time students. A 1800 square foot digital design/exhibit fabrication studio and a 1400 square foot conservation laboratory. The program also has a museum collection of its own with research materials within the ethonograpic, social sciences, historical and visual arts fields.
Our students have recently completed curatorial work on the design and construction of three exhibits as well as participated in the preservation of our collective cultural past and these include;
The Workers Heritage Exhibit curated and designed by Graham Iddon and Jen Potter which opened at the Cube Gallery here in Ottawa last Friday evening. Re-creation of a 1930′s General Store executed by Andrew Boisvenue, Jenn Jones, Emily Fiszer and Kristen Hargrove for the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. Finally but not least Grant Vogl and Eric Espig will unviel their exhibit Cold War Berlin: Life at the Breaking Point (http://exhibit-f.blogspot.com/) at the Diefenbunker Cold War Museum this coming Tuesday May 12, 2009.
Again thanks for your comments and I hope you continue to stop by and review the work undertaken by our students.
cheers
Terry
Great post!
Hello, it really interesting, thanks