Industrial Heritage Conservation Workforce and Collections Survey |
Introduction
Icon has received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Heritage Innovation Fund programme to develop interventions which will support the development of skills in the workforce working to protect and preserve industrial heritage collections in the UK.
This survey has been designed to develop our understanding of the nature of collections which are held, who is caring for these collections and specific workforce skills needs.
This survey has been designed to develop our understanding of the nature of collections which are held, who is caring for these collections and specific workforce skills needs.
For the purpose of this work, we are using the definition of industrial heritage outlined in the ‘Dublin Principles’ as follows:
“The industrial heritage consists of sites, structures, complexes, areas and landscapes as well as the related machinery, objects or documents that provide evidence of past or ongoing industrial processes of production, the extraction of raw materials, their transformation into goods, and the related energy and transport infrastructures”.
We are specifically focusing on mechanical and working collections where we perceive as being in greatest need.
If you have any questions when completing this survey, please contact Veronica Wilson, Icon’s Skills & Research Assistant at veronica.wilson@icon.org.uk.