SEE Mosaics III 2016

The third meeting entitled SEE Mosaics Meeting III “New perspectives and challenges in mosaic conservation” was held from 14th to 17th September 2016 in Ohrid, North Macedonia. The meeting was jointly organized by Maja Franković and Branislava Lazarević Tosović from the Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade and Nikola Upevche, SEE Mosaics project team member from Ohrid from the Local Development Agency in Struga. The meeting was supported by the Central European Initiative – CEI.

Thirty colleagues from ten countries participated in the meeting. Apart the participants from CEI countries (Albania, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia), colleagues from France and Spain participated as well.

To view complete list of participants, click here.

The program consisted of individual participant presentations, discussions and the round table. The presentations showcased problem solving of conservation challenges regarding investigations and research, mosaic documentation, conservation in situ and in museums. Discussions and the round table touched several topics: the contribution of the conservation process to gathering information on the object or the context, the possibilities of contemporary documentation techniques and their applicability in practice, the impact of the shelters on mosaic conservation/decay, possibilities for mosaic covering on archaeological sites, conservation of mosaics in situ, as well as mosaic presentation in museums. The round table also reflected on the results and achievements of the SEE Mosaics Project so far and proposed further courses of action. 

The meeting program was completed with the study visit to the Archaeological museum in Skopje, Monastery St. John Bigovski and Macedonian Village.

To view workshop programme, click here.