The Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont is organizing the second edition of the Workshop on Conservation, Preparation and Restoration in Natural History to be held on May 17-21, 2011 in Sabadell.

While collections of natural history are included within cultural heritage, we -the professionals interacting with them- are facing a lack of training resources that allow us to renew our knowledge and update the proper managing of the collections deposited in our institutions.

The aim of this II Workshop is to continue the work started in the first edition held in 2009, emphasizing the protection and conservation of natural and scientific heritage and offering a unique opportunity to discuss with natural history curators conservator-restorators.

We approach this second edition to a practice track, interdisciplinary, of quality and with international projection. For this reason, we will combine lectures by a team of curators from major international collections, with a space for communications and poster presentations of the participants to find, thus, solutions together. The workshop will also offer a discussion platform with round tables and hands-on sessions.

At the time of registration, participants will specify whether they are proposing an oral or poster presentation, as well as its title. Abstracts to both oral and poster presentations must be submitted before September 30, 2010.

Accepted presentations will be asked to submit a full paper -both for communications and posters, as they will be published and delivered at the beginning of the II Workshop.