Driving innovation through technology-enabled research spaces and collections management at The Courtauld

考陶尔德艺术学院是世界上杰出的艺术历史和保护中心。我们著名的收藏品包括35，000件艺术品，其历史可以追溯到中世纪至今，其中包括许多标志性作品，包括绘画、纸质作品、装饰艺术和雕塑。它包括英国最大的印象派绘画收藏和最好的绘画收藏之一。我们的使命是通过广泛的互补活动（教学，策展，保护，展览，收藏品展示和公共计划）来扩展对视觉艺术的理解，所有这些都植根于我们蓬勃发展的研究文化。为了社会的利益，我们致力于大幅增加我们的收藏，研究，教学和公众参与的机会，我们在2018年底开始了一个雄心勃勃的项目，重点是我们的画廊和保护设施。Courtauld的目标是成为世界领先的教学和研究中心;重新定义艺术史的概念，其中包括多个学科;了解全球对象和图像制作的背景;并成为所有背景的人的包容性组织。经过30多年后，在我们目前的萨默塞特众议院的家，并没有重大改善，自1989年以来，很明显，这些设施迫切需要广泛和敏感的翻新和整修。AHRC收藏基金能力的支持对于确保Courtauld的这种转变在学术和公共领域产生世界领先的研究至关重要，并扩大了我们的资产，以促进创意产业的能力，包括遗产部门。在赋予考陶德与世界级的艺术收藏，我们的创始人认识到，艺术作品作为物理对象的研究是艺术历史和保护专业知识的核心。考陶德拥有英国最多的艺术历史学家，保护者和策展人，并与这些创始原则保持一致，我们的保护部门负责我们自己的收藏。我们的学生团体c.550学生从BA到博士学位，我们的校友人数超过8，000人是全球艺术和创意产业的领导者。自20世纪30年代以来，考陶德一直是保护者教育的领导者。我们的教学保护计划（墙壁和画架绘画）每年接待超过25名学生;保护校友是国内和国际领域的领导者。一个强大的展览和展示，研究和编目项目，访问策展人计划，国际合作伙伴关系和一系列定期的公共和学术活动计划，使考陶德的收藏成为国际上最具活力的收藏之一。Courtauld认为其独特的展览计划是提供世界领先的研究和增加研究环境价值的主要手段。Courtauld的要求提供了其重建工程基础设施发展的一些最敏感的元素，并符合我们的能力发展战略的机会。在申请中，Courtauld确定了AHRC支持的三个核心领域：收藏商店升级和改装;技术支持的学习空间，如打印和图纸学习室和技术考试区以及对象学习室;以及机械改进，以更好地照顾和检查收藏中的所有作品。在资助期间提出的干预措施推动了文化和艺术历史教育的一步变化，以推进研究，并促进与物理合作和数字倡议的新形式的伙伴关系。

The Courtauld Institute of Art is the world's pre-eminent centre for the history and conservation of art. Our celebrated collection of 35,000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the present, includes many iconic works, and encompasses paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, and sculpture. It includes the UK's greatest collection of Impressionist paintings and one of its finest collections of drawings. Our mission is to extend the understanding of the visual arts through a wide spectrum of complementary activities (teaching, curating, conservation, exhibitions, the display of the collection, and public programmes) all of which are rooted in our thriving research culture. Motivated by a commitment to significantly increase access to our collection, research, teaching, and public engagement for the benefit of society, we embarked on an ambitious project focusing on our gallery and conservation facilities in late 2018. The Courtauld aims to be a world leading centre for teaching and research; to redefine the notion of art history, which encompasses multiple disciplines; to understand global objects and image making in context; and to be an inclusive organisation for people of all backgrounds. After more than 30 years in our current Somerset House home and with no major improvements since 1989, it was clear that these facilities urgently required extensive and sensitive renovation and refurbishment. The support of the AHRC Capability for Collections Fund is critical to ensuring that this transformation at The Courtauld produces world-leading research both within academic and public spheres, and expands our capacity to digitize our assets in order to contribute to the creative industries, including the heritage sector. In bestowing The Courtauld with a world-class collection of art, our founders recognized that the study of works of art as physical objects was central to art historical and conservational expertise. The Courtauld has the largest concentration of art historians, conservators, and curators in the UK, and in keeping with these founding principles, our conservation department is responsible for our own collections. Our student body of c.550 students take degrees from BA to PhD, and our alumni numbering more than 8,000 are leaders in the arts and creative industries worldwide. Since the 1930s, The Courtauld has been a leader in the education of conservators. Our taught conservation programmes (wall and easel paintings) host more than 25 students per year; conservation alumni are leaders in the field nationally and internationally. A robust programme of exhibitions and displays, research and cataloguing projects, a visiting curator scheme, international partnerships and a range of regular public and scholarly events have made The Courtauld's collection among the most dynamic of its kind internationally. The Courtauld believes that its distinctive programme of exhibitions is a primary means to deliver world-leading research and add value to the research environment.The Courtauld's request delivers some of the most sensitive elements of the infrastructure development of its redevelopment works and which align to the Opportunities to grow our capability strategy. In the application, The Courtauld has identified three core areas for AHRC support: collection stores upgrade and refit; technology-enabled study spaces such as the Prints and Drawings Study Room and Technical Examination area and an Object Study Room; and mechanical improvements to better care for and examine all works in the collections. The proposed interventions during the funding period drive a step-change in cultural and art historical education to advance research, and promote new forms of partnership with both physical collaborations and digital initiatives.