Seminar: Baltic amber and other resins in the world - conservation challenges
13.03.2025, at 10.00 - 13.00
Conference room A1
This is the XXVII Amber Seminary, over which the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship took the patronage. Speakers of the seminar will be conservators of monuments, art historians and archaeologists, who will bring the issues related to the maintenance of amber and discuss the challenges that this beautiful but extremely demanding material puts before the researchers. Amber, which is not only a natural treasure, but also a history carrier, is the subject of many scientific research that allows you to better understand its properties and protection methods.
The seminar scientific manager will be dr hab. Eng. Ewa Wagner-Wysiecka, prof. PG, a specialist in the field of chemistry and maintenance, whose experience in this subject will provide a deep, interdisciplinary perspective for conservation challenges related to amber and other resins in the world.
The seminar is a great opportunity to broaden knowledge about amber and its maintenance and to meet experts from various fields who examine and work with this fascinating material on a daily basis.
The event organized under the honorary patronage of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczysław Struk.
Organizers: International Amber Association, International Fair Gdańskie SA, Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology.
Seminar program:
10.00 -10.15 Opening of the seminar -Monika Szpatowicz, Ewa Wagner -Wysiecka
10.15-10.45-Jacek Bielak "Artistic issues in the maintenance of old amber products-needs and challenges"
10.45-11.15-Katarzyna Kita "Art historian in the process of conservation activities of amber monuments. From the experience of research on the casket of Christoph Mucher (17th century) "
11.15-11.45-Anna Sobecka, Anna Kriegseisen "Challenges related to the protection and maintenance of modern amber monuments"
11.45-12.15-Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Dariusz Manasterski "Field maintenance of prehistory amber artifacts"
12.15-12.40-Ewa Wagner-Wysiecka "Museum and archaeological objects from amber (?) In physicochemical studies"
12.40-13.00-Discussion panel, summary, seminar closing
