Khine Mon Kyaw

Biography

When Khine took part in the ITP in 2019, she had been working at the National Museum of Yangon since 2011. As a junior conservator in the Department of Conservation, her work included collections care and storage, cataloguing and keeping records, displaying objects and collaborating with other departments of the institution. She was also responsible for carrying out research and writing catalogue entries.

Due to the current situation in Myanmar, Khine left the National Museum but has continued to work in painting conservation for several private galleries, with a focus on both preventive and remedial conservation, sharing knowledge about preventive conservation with a case study for collectors and artists one day a week.

This is particularly significant as many cultural heritage sites, artworks, and historic places have suffered considerable damage – so Khine aims to protect and preserve as many paintings as she can, using conservation as a way to safeguard cultural identity.

Khine is also planning to write a series of articles featuring case studies to share her own conservation experience. Her aim is to document the challenges and techniques she has learned, so that future generations – especially young conservators from Myanmar – can benefit.

At the British Museum

During her time on the International Training Programme Khine was based in the Department of Asia and spent her partner placement at Lincoln Museum and Nottingham University Museum.

In 2019 participants were asked to plan and propose a temporary exhibition around an object from the Museum’s collection working within the theme of journeys.  Khine worked with Balqees Nakhla (Palestine) on her Object in focus project. Their exhibition proposal was titled Turkmen Textile Journeys: between identity and history.

Khine’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Charles Wallace Burma Trust.

ITP Newsletter Publications
ITP Newsletter Issue 8 (2021) The impact of COVID-19 on the National Museum (Yangon)