Museum Textile Services is pleased to announce that its 2007 Pre-Columbian Textile Workshop will take place from January 10-19 in Lima and Trujillo, Peru.
This hands-on conservation course is geared toward students, professionals, and others with museum sensibilities and good sewing skills who want to learn about textile conservation and pre-Columbian cultures while visiting the amazing country of Peru.
The goals of the 2007 course are to document, conserve, and mount pre-Columbian hats, caps, and other head gear from the site of Huaca Malena.
The beginning of the course will consist of a three-day excursion to Trujillo, Chan Chan, and Huaca de la Luna in the North of Peru.
The class will then return to Lima for a weekend of instructional museum visits, including Pachacamac and Huaca Malena.
A full week of hands-on conservation classes will follow. Our classroom space will be donated by the Yachay Wasi Institute of Conservation and Restoration.
The workshop is limited to eight non-Peruvian students and four Peruvians.
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