Professional profile Pjotr Juga

Freia Beer

Name: Pjotr Juga

Position: Modern Materials Conservator, MiST

Storage Manager, Ringve and Rockheim

Profile:
Pjotr Juga was employed by MiST in 2013 and has been modern materials conservator for 10 museums since then. From 2021 he is also wearing a hat of storage manager at Ringve and Rockheim Museum. His work includes collection care tasks for several museums in the region such as exhibition preparation and collection suveys, including most recent museum storage survey for the whole county of Trøndelag.

In addition, he is involved in research projects both nationally and internationally, RAPMUS (Reduced Aging of Plastic Artefacts in Museum Collections) in 2017-21 and "Unraveling the History of Venetian Antiphonary" in 2021-23 in collaboration with NTNU Age Determination Lab to name a few.

Pjotr Juga holds a Magister's degree in Art specialising in paper and leather conservation from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Since 2001, he has worked in the MLA sector in several European countries. From 2013 he is dedicated to conservation of modern materials.

Selected Publications:

‘Benchmarks 2.0 på norsk’. With Christina Ådland Næss. In Norske konserves : medlemsblad for NKF-N, 2/2017, pp.30-36. ISSN 0804-3817. https://www.nkf-n.no/publikasjoner/norske-konserves/utgivelser#:~:text=Norske%20Konserves%202017%2D2

‘Unravelling the history of a venetian antiphonary.’ With Izabela Rzadeczka-Juga, Marie-Josee Nadeau, Pjotr Juga, Damaris Charlotte Marie Zurbach, Pieter M Grootes, Helene Løvstrand Svarva, Marin Seilel. In Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISSN 0033-8222, e-ISSN 1945-5755. Original Online(DOI) https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.61