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INTO Webinars in 2024

Welcome to our new series of webinars! This series is themed around newly released chapters of the National Trust’s climate adaptation guidance, which are aimed at helping heritage organisations worldwide care for their important sites and collections in the face of ever-increasing climate-related challenges. These sessions will cover gardens, buildings and collections, and will be delivered by National Trust experts alongside members of the wider INTO network.

  • ‘Safeguarding paper & books in the context of climate change’
  • Wednesday 20 March, 1-2pm GMT Joining link

With Nicola Walker, National Trust Senior Paper Conservator and Helena Bennett, St Helena National Trust.

Nicola will give an overview of the National Trust adaptation guidance on paper & books, with some examples of where paper collections items are at risk and how we’re responding to that challenge.

Helena will talk through the climate change-related risks to St Helena’s archive, the Endangered Archives Programme they’ve just completed to digitise their important holdings, and future conservation plans.

a paper conservator brushing an antique book under a lamp

Paper conservation in action

National Trust climate adaptation guidance

National Trust experts, in partnership with heritage organisations and INTO's 'Withstanding Change' project, are developing a range of guidance to help heritage sites become more resilient to climate change, and support teams to take decisions in the face of climate hazards.

Learn more here

Next in the series:

  • Climate resilient parks and gardens’
  • Wednesday 17 April, 1-2pm GMT Joining link

Emma McNamara, horticulture development specialist at the National Trust, will give an overview of their climate adaptation guidance on gardens and parks.

Esther Sellassie Antohin, founder and executive director of Heritage Watch Ethiopia, will present her team’s work to restore and adapt the Tsegereda Garden on the campus of the University of Addis Ababa as part of INTO’s ‘Withstanding Change’ project.

Please check back or follow our channels for the next in the series.

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