Date: April 20–21, 9:00–15:30
Location: Porcelain Museum, Porsgrunn

Registration: karolina@telemark.museum.no

Lunch: light refreshments, NOK 200 per day

Language: the seminar will be conducted in English

Decorative techniques often serve a purpose—to showcase local cultural heritage and tell a story. Traditionally, decorative techniques have been approached as purely technical, physical, or aesthetic subjects. Research also explores the historical context of decoration.

Decorative techniques is a broad topic, often discussed within professional communities such as researchers, museum professionals, and practitioners in the arts, among others. This seminar approaches the topic in a new and innovative way. The aim is to provide a fresh perspective on decorative techniques and present them to a wider audience as both an attraction and a societal value.

Cultural tourism is an important part of working with ceramic heritage. We have therefore invited our partners from Poland, Slovakia, and Italy to join us and share their experiences and knowledge related to the preservation and revitalization of intangible cultural heritage, as well as how decorative techniques can be connected to cultural tourism.

Program

Monday 20. April 9–15:30:

• Registration and coffee
• Welcome by Christine Hermansen, Director of Telemark Museum
• Stamped ceramics – a unique cultural heritage, Ceramics Museum in Boleslawiec, Poland
• Decorative techniques from Modra: From history to the present day, by Agáta Petrakovičová Šikulová, Director of the Ľudovít Štúr Museum – Slovak National Museum, presented by Jakub Liška
• Lunch break
• Boleslawiec – Poland’s ceramics capital by Ceramics Museum in Boleslawiec, Poland.
  How do the municipality and the museum work with cultural tourism in mind?
• Modra – Focus on cultural tourism and cultural heritage preservation by Juraj Petrakovič, Mayor of Modra, Slovakia
• Historical decoration techniques at Porsgrund Porcelain Factory by Ann Iren Ryggen Aasen, Collection Manager, Telemark Museum

Tuesday 21 April 9–15:30:

• Registration and coffee
• Welcome by Christine Hermansen, Director of Telemark Museum
• Welcome by Christine Hermansen, Director of Telemark Museum
• European cultural routes by Olga Wisniewska, Senior Adviser, Directorate of Culture
• European Route of Ceramics and cultural tourism in Faenza by Francesca Minardi, European Route of Ceramics/Tourism and Intl. Relations Dept.
• Cultural heritage in marketing and promoting the region by Monica Esse, marketing manager, Visit Telemark
• The exhibition At the King’s Table by Gunhild Varvin, Queen Sonja Art Gallery
• Craftspeople have boots, not roots. Intangible cultural heritage and decorative traditions by Eivind Falk, Head of Department, Norwegian Crafts Institute