Grimwade Centre for CMC

Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation is Australia’s leading Centre of excellence for art and cultural materials conservation and preservation. Uniquely positioned as the only Centre of its kind in Australia and amongst only a few like-organisations in the world, the Centre combines three activity streams which seek to advance innovation and leadership of cultural heritage practice in the Asia-Pacific region. The streams are:

• conservation education and training
• research and advancement in cultural materials conservation innovation
• conservation consulting services (trading as Grimwade Conservation Services)

  The Grimwade team have significant operational experience in the delivery of conservation treatments of all types. As a trusted leader in conservation practice and training in the Asia Pacific region, our client base includes significant national, state and regional public collections; commercial galleries; corporate collections; heritage places; and private collections.   Our consulting services include conservation treatment of all materials; collection conservation for exhibition and/or digitization; collection surveys and risk assessments; environmental monitoring and condition reporting; collection rehousing and storage; professional and academic training in conservation and collection management; research and technical analysis.   Our services: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/grimwade-centre-for-cultural-materials-conservation/conservation-services/services-support/conservation-treatment-advice   Our portfolio: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/grimwade-centre-for-cultural-materials-conservation/conservation-services/our-portfolio