From October 8 to 10, 2012 the head of the service of restoration and binding Vershina E.Yu. participated in the regional thematic training  of UNESCO/ICOM for the museum specialists of the countries of the CIS “Preventive conservation – the main factor for the preservation of museum collections: the manuscript fonds” (Erevan city, Armenia).

   The regional thematic training is the continuation of the cycle of national and regional trainings of UNESCO/ICOM carried out with the support of UNESCO and IFHC for the countries of the CIS in 2008-2011.

   There at the seminar were discussed the following issues:
• The preventive conservation and individual packaging for archival documents and books;
• The initial treatment of documents from dust and mildew as preventive measure for protection of documents from destruction;
• The detection of biodamages as exemplified by the archival documents of Matenadaran and their conserv ation.