Merging mind-sets: Training as a traditional Chinese scroll mounter within the British Museum, London, UK

The contrast in conservation training styles between Western and traditional Chinese methods and how the commitment to such an absolute mode of training can actually widen one's perception of conservation methodologies rather than narrow it. The mode of learning, where observation and copying the master, without questioning, stand in stark comparison to Western encouragements to innovate almost from the start of training. The time and intensity that must be dedicated to tools and materials, made familiar by the repetition of basic training tasks and repeated scroll mounting processes, and areas of potential ethical contention between Western and Eastern conservation mind-sets, were considered as the three major differences between the two mind-sets.