Read the most up-to-date articles and blog posts on art and museum collection conservation from industry leading conservation experts.
Hazardous objects are an unavoidable reality in many science, history, and cultural institutions. Items such as mercury thermometers, arsenic-treated taxidermy, nitrate film, and lead-glazed ceramics present material risks to staff, visitors, and other collection objects. In some museums, hazardous materials […]
Preparing for Implementing Conservation Software The Frick Collection, located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, is one of the most well-known museums in the world, with a collection specializing in Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative […]
Tackling the Challenges Faced by Museum Conservators One of the biggest issues that conservators face is a huge workload, particularly around managing objects for exhibitions and loans. Treatments and surveys require extensive documentation, and conservators generate more media files than […]
A Day in the Life of a Museum Conservator Have you ever been excited to start a conservation project, but were derailed by last minute exhibition checklists? Meet Jane, a busy conservator who has an exciting project ahead of her. […]
Conserving the Un-Conservable with Christian Scheidemann With the introduction of unstable materials into the construction of contemporary art, conservators face a completely new set of challenges. How does one protect and stabilize an object that, by nature, is meant to […]
Los Angeles, CA | September 12-16, 2016 The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), in collaboration with the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA), is hosting their biennial congress from September 12 to […]
Apply for Funding for Your Museum's Conservation Projects The Bank of America Art Conservation Project recently released information on the objects that had received conservation treatment in the last year as part of their annual grant project. Thirteen museums in […]
Improving the Conservation and Accessibility of Collections Objects It’s the challenge of everyone who works with collections: how to preserve objects while at the same time increasing their accessibility? The imperative of accessibility is too powerful to ignore. Surrounding yourself […]
Incredible Discoveries by the Barnes Foundation and the Baltimore Museum of Art Not only do conservators play a critical role in preserving art and artifacts, sometimes they discover them too. This week in Conservation News we highlight two stories where […]
Developing Our Conservation Documentation Software Conservation management features have been part of The Museum System (TMS) from its beginning. When Jay Hoffman, CEO of Gallery Systems, was developing the first Windows version of TMS for the Metropolitan Museum of Art […]
