Glenn Wharton Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Professor, Department of Art History Professor, Conservation of Material Culture and Jason De León Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lloyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair in Archaeology Professor, Department of Anthropology Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies […]
During this Spring Break join us in an open dialogue, and some refreshments, on conservation and research on Indigenous heritage with four professionals of four different disciplines and who work with different stakeholders in different countries and cultural heritage contexts. We will explore the ethical, practical, and epistemological dimensions of collaborative work between […]
Speaker: Thiago Puglieri, PhD RSVP HERE This presentation aims to foster a dialogue with scholars in Health Equity & Translational Social Science to identify and integrate community-engaged methodologies that can enhance the social impact, data sovereignty, and ethical rigor of research in Heritage Science – the scientific study of culturally significant materials. Our fundamental question […]
Glenn Wharton Professor, UCLA Department of Art History Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritageinvites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series: "Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts" Featuring: Erica P. Jones Senior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Fowler Museum […]
How Chemists Investigate Cultural Heritage: A Look at the Science and Ethics Date/Time Thursday, October 23, 2025 4:00 pm PDT – 5:30 pm PDT Location UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream 2520 Cimarron Street Third Annual Spotlight Talk by Thiago Sevilhano Puglieri, Assistant Professor of […]
UCLA/Getty Conservation Lab Open House October 23, 2025 3-5 pm UCLA/Getty Conservation Labs at the Getty Villa Come meet our students and hear about their current research and conservation projects! Driving and parking information will be provided with RSVP Confirmation RSVP to William Shelley by October 13th wshelley@ucla.edu
Glenn Wharton Professor, Department of Art History Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage invites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Damon Crockett Lead Scientist, Lens Media Lab Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University speaking on "A.I. and Cultural Heritage Research: Risks and the Sins of […]
Title: A handmade present: Weaving opportunities at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca Event Date: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 11 a.m. (PT) Event Location: Wherever your zoom-compatible device is located Presenter: Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano RSVP HERE Description: Please join us for our Spring quarter Conservation Conversation "A handmade present – Weaving opportunities at the […]
Title: Off the Mount: A Discussion on Activating Objects and Belongings Event Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 at 11 a.m. (PT) Event Location: Wherever your zoom-compatible device is located Presenters: Heidi Swierenga and Karen Duffek RSVP HERE Abstract The Calls to Action issued by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission have challenged museums to address the […]
Please join us for a special talk presented by the Waystation Initiative and the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Friday February 21, 2025 Time: 4:00 to 5:00 PM Location: UCLA Campus Fowler Building A222 and Via Zoom Click Here for Anauene Dias Soares' Event Poster Brazilian Repatriation in Practice: Legal Challenges and Alternative Solutions Anauene Dias Soares: […]
Glenn Wharton Professor, Department of Art History Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Erica P. Jones Senior Curator of African Arts and Manager of Curatorial Affairs Fowler Museum at UCLA invite you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Luis A. Muro Ynoñán Unidentified artists, vessel, 450-650 […]
Title: Ancient Chinese lime-based building materials: Its archaeometric studies and conservation materials development Presenter: Xiao Ma Event Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 at 4 p.m. (PT) Event Location: Wherever your zoom-compatible device is located RSVP HERE Abstract: From a material perspective, there were two types of materials involved in the studies of cultural heritage artifacts: […]
UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Julianne Polanco Julianne Polanco State Historic Preservation Officer California Office of Historic Preservation speaking on "Historic Preservation: Relevancy, Community, and Resilience in a Changing Climate" Thursday, November 21, 2024 6:00 p.m. PT About the Speaker: Julianne Polanco is a heritage professional with experience at the international to local levels, focused […]
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 […]
The Art & Science of Feathers: Biology, Persistence, and Meaning symposium was organized by the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Conservation and held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, May 10–11, 2024. This symposium celebrated the research, practice, and teaching career of Ellen Pearlstein, conservator and founding faculty member of the program. Speakers explored the interdisciplinary understanding, significance, and care of the complex aviary structures known as feathers.
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 […]
UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Gala Porras-Kim About the program: Gala Porras-Kim will speak about The weight of a patina of time, an exhibition featuring works emerging from conversations with Fowler Museum conservators and curators about Mexican archaeology and conservation. Her in-depth explorations of the uncertain histories of ancient objects and their conservation reimagine their […]
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 […]
Dr. Poshyvailo with a ceramic rooster rescued from the air bombed block of flats in the town of Borodianka that came to be a symbol of Ukrainian resilience. April 2022, Borodianka, Kyiv Region. Credit: Bohdan Poshyvailo, Maidan Museum. UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Ihor Poshyvailo Director, National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution […]
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 […]
