Title: Exploring Sustainable Conservation Practices: Insights from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE-USP). Presenter: Ana Carolina Delgado Vieira Event Date Friday, May 31st, 2024 at 11 a.m. (PT) Event Location Wherever your zoom-compatible device is located RSVP HERE Abstract: For decades, ethnographic museums have treated their collections with pesticides. To preserve organic objects, these […]

Title: Lessons from La Frontera: Conserving Earthen Architecture in the U.S./Mexico Borderland Presenter: Alex B. Lim Event Date Friday, March 8th, 2024 at 11 a.m. (PT) Event Location Wherever your zoom-compatible device is located RSVP Link Description: The Sonoran Desert has been home to diverse cultures. Many tangible remains of the interactions between the landscape […]

Toxic Heritage in Museum Collections – History, Impact and Mitigation of Pesticides Event Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 at 11 a.m. (PT) Presenter: Helene Tello RSVP Link The use of pesticides in museum collections at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century will be discussed in the socio-political context of […]

Dra. María Olvido Moreno Guzmán, Independent Researcher Renée Riedler, Weltmuseum Wien Carlos Barrera Reyes, Na Bolom Museum November 16th 11:00-12:00 PDT RSVP Here In the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico, valuable 20th century replicas of unique feather objects are permanently exhibited in the Mexica Hall. This conservation-education strategy of creating replicas dates to 1938, originally serving […]

Research, policy, and practice by conservators with Indigenous communities in North America. SAMANTHA ALDERSON, ELLEN CARRLEE, AND KELLY McHUGH Register for the Panel "Conservation support of institutional advances in community collaboration: The loan of a Haida chest and the renovation of the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History" Abstract Over the […]

Community Archaeology and Conservation in Sudan: The Community Heritage Center at El-Kurru Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis Register for the Talk Community engagement is now essential to ethical field practice in archaeology and conservation. Although it represents a significant change from traditional fieldwork, working more closely with host communities leads to significantly better and more […]

Alternative Paths for Preserving Material Culture and Bio Culture Heritage Julia M Brennan and Lilian García-Alonso Watch the Recording Here Abstract As textile conservators from different backgrounds, we were drawn together by a common interest and respect for traditional technologies, materials, and practices used around the world to care for textile collections. These methods grounded […]

The Loong Conservation Project—conserving the oldest known imperial processional dragon Dr Holly Jones-Amin Watch the Recording Here Loong 龍 is recognised as the oldest imperial processional dragon in the world. Made c. 1890, Loong 龍 is a widely respected living part of the Bendigo community in Australia. His survival is due to over 100 years […]

Study of 16thand 17thcentury lacquered Luso-Asian artifacts –Uncovering complex dynamics of cross-cultural exchange reflected in their heterogeneous composition   Watch the Recording Here   Abstract Catholic European presence in 16thand 17thcentury Asia,under the patronage of the Portuguese Crown,linked varied ports of South, Southeast and East Asia via the Luso-Asian networks of maritime trading routes, commercial […]

The Conservation and Curation of African Sacred Objects: Case study: Dinkho tsa Badimo (Ancestral ceramic vessels of the Basotho-Batswana of Southern Africa) Mabafokeng Hoeane(She/They) PhD candidate, Heritage Museums Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa Watch the Recording Here Abstract Ceramic vessels for centuries have been used across the world by different cultures and groups for […]

The Conservation and Restoration of the Church of Kuñotambo by its Community Register for the Talk Claudia Cancino   Claudia Cancino Architect | Architectural Conservator | MBA | MS Senior Project Specialist, Building and Sites department The Getty Conservation Institute     The community of Kuñotambo, a small village near Cusco, Peru has been a […]

Yup'ik masks at the Vatican; Indigenous American Heritage in European Museums Chuna McIntyre and Ellen Pearlstein Register for the Talk Collaborative practices that are increasingly expanding in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand are important to extend toEuropean museums holding these collections, i e., to create more global paradigms for collaborative conservation practice. As […]

Claudio Cancino Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute Register here The conservation and restoration of the church of Kuñotambo by its community Claudia Cancino Architect | Architectural Conservator | MBA | MS Senior Project Specialist, Building and Sites department The Getty Conservation Institute The community of Kuñotambo, a small village near Cusco, Peru has been […]

Marianne Webb Webb Conservation Services Register here Asian lacquer is one of those materials that most furniture and object conservators encounter occasionally during their career. Unfortunately, conservation efforts can go dramatically wrong when a sensitive lacquer surface is treated inappropriately. A lustrous black surface can instantaneously turn to a milky brown color. During the active history of an Asian lacquer […]

Rodrigo Correa-Salas Conservator Watch the Recording Here The structure, materials and acoustic properties of musical instruments are diverse and delicate. These characteristics will determine whether the instrument can be played (on special occasions) or just be displayed in the gallery. The basic knowledge of the different materials (and their combinations) with which they were built, how they were made, how they were played and on […]

Malin Sahlstedt Conservator, Vasa Museum, Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums Watch the Recording Here Since the raising of 17th-century warship Vasa in 1961 after333 years on the seabed of Stockholm harbour, two generations of preservation staff have had the task to safeguard this mighty piece of maritime cultural heritage for the future, a task perhaps […]

Wafa Ghnaim Register here Embroidery in the Holy Land has existed for centuries, showcased in the decorated garments created andworn by Palestinian women for generations, as well as documented by the many international visitors who travelled to Palestine for pilgrimage or tourism. By the mid-nineteenth century, each region of historic Palestine had developed their own distinct […]

Sven Haakanson Ph.D., Curator, Burke Museum Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Washington Register here Over the past three decades, in collaboration with my community from Kodiak, Alaska, I have researched museum collections from around the world to learn about and return the embodied knowledge of our cultural history. From masks, clothing, baskets to boats we have systematically taken knowledge that […]

Sreekumar Menon Paintings Conservator, (Partner) Art Conservation Solutions Register here Wall paintings in Ladakh, the earliest specimens of which date from the eleventh century, mirror the development of Buddhism and Buddhist Art in the region.The materials and technique of these paintings,and their iconographic schemes, are complex and have transformed overtime. Many of these paintings have undergone damages due to various intrinsic and or extrinsic factors. Their conservation is […]

Gurmeet S Rai Ms. Director, CRCI (India) Pvt Ltd Watch the Recording Here The Rajbagh Silk factory is a strand of the cultural legacy of Kashmir. Silk from Kashmir finds references in ancient, medieval and modern period narratives. In the 19th-20thC the bivoltine silk and crafts such as pashmina shawls from the valley were much […]

Tessa de Alarcon, Grace Jan, Almoatz-bellah Elshahawi Friday May 21st, 11:00am - 12:30pm (PT) Register here Tessa de Alarcon How working in the US and Guatemala has Influenced the Way I Think About Conservation I will briefly discuss my experiences working in Guatemala as compared to working in the United States and reflect on how those experiences have impacted the […]

A conversation between Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz and José Bedia, Moderated by Manuel Jordán May 18th, 10am - 11am PST Register here This program follows an exciting interdisciplinary seminar on African Objects in Museums, where students examined a series of objects including painted Yoruba drums and Kongo minkisi. To continue discussions, the Fowler Museum, the Cotsen Institute of […]

Glenn Wharton, Andrea Geyer Friday April 23rd, 11:00am - 12:00pm (PT)   UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Chair Glenn Wharton will interview artist Andrea Geyer about the conservation and display of 9 Scripts for a Nation at War, a work that was acquired by MoMA when Wharton served as the museum’s Media Conservator. Geyer is a German-born multi-disciplinary […]

Join museum professionals for a conversation about how conservation practices can serve as one of many strategies for decolonizing museums. RSVP on Eventbrite to receive the link. The Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda, financed by Belgium in the late 1980s as a symbol of cooperation with Rwanda, houses one of Africa’s most significant ethnographic collections. The […]