FrançaisCICRP – Centre Interrégional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine
[CICRP - Interregional Centre for Heritage Conservation and Restoration]
Roland May
Chief Curator
Executive Director of the CICRP
Head of the Preventive Conservation Department
Areas of specialisation
Academic specialisation: History and archaeology of Antiquity
Professional specialisation: History and politics of museums, especially in relation to conservation (storage of works, management of collections, etc.)
External activities
Lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre (preventive conservation 2000–2006), at the Université de Saint-Etienne (history and administration of French museums) and at the Université de Paris I (conservation and management of collections).
Conservation and management of collections: frequent coordinator of continuing education seminars in Paris (Institut National du Patrimoine) and abroad (Jakarta, Indonesia in July 2004 and July 2005; Beijing, China in 2005 and 2007).
Member of ICOM (French section) and ICOM-CC.
Member of the European Committee for the Standardisation – Technical Commission for the Conservation of Cultural Property, and French coordinator of the working group “Preventive Conservation and the Environment”.
Member of the Collection Commission of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
Previous positions
2000–2005: Head of Preventive Conservation Department, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C.2.R.M.F., Paris)
1992–2000: Museum Consultant (Direction Regionale des Affaires Culturelles, Rhône-Alpes)
1990–1992: Interim Director and Deputy Director of Museums, City of Marseille
1988–1990: Curator, Musée d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne (Marseille)
1981–1988: Curator, Musée de Langres
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Page last updated on 7 July 2008.
CICRP – Centre Interrégional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine
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