2025 Annual General Meeting

Please join us for the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of the University of Hong Kong Museum Society Limited on Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 18:00 at the Biblioteca (Library) on the 23rd Floor of Club Lusitano, Printing House, 16 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong.  After the meeting, the Executive Committee is pleased to invite members to join a lecture presented by Professor Marc Walton, Museum Studies Program, The University of Hong Kong.  This lecture will be followed with dinner at Salao Nobre De Camoes (Ballroom) on the 27th Floor of Club Lusitano.

Lecture: Towards a New Future for Art Conservation at The University of Hong Kong

Synopsis:
This lecture will present Art Conservation and Conservation Science as disciplines at the forefront of investigating the materiality of cultural objects across time and space. Case studies will be presented from a variety of different conservation and scientific projects undertaken by the speaker across the world and will culminate in a discussion of the new activities that are now underway at The University of Hong Kong in this area, including the establishment of a MA course, the first of its kind in Hong Kong, as well as plans for laboratories at the University Museum and Art Gallery dedicated to conservation treatments and analyzing art objects.

Guest Speaker:
Marc Walton is a professor in the Museum Studies Program at The University of Hong Kong.  Prior to this, he held senior leadership positions at Hong Kong’s M+ (Head of Conservation and Research) and in academia as co-director of Northwestern University’s Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts where he was also Research Professor of Materials Science.   He has led numerous scientific projects investigating art objects in collaboration with cultural heritage institutions representing a broad range of disciplines (from anthropology to contemporary art) and geographical reach (both U.S. and internationally).   He has also held positions at the Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) after receiving training in art history, conservation and archaeological science at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Oxford. Professor Walton’s most recent research is on developing and using imaging technologies in the field of conservation science to better understand how artworks were made and deteriorate.