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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Phidias Unbound: How Robot-Generated Replicas Could Solve the Parthenon Marbles Quandary Roger Michel Executive Director, The Institute for Digital Archaeology. About the program: The Parthenon Marbles, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, were removed from the ancient Acropolis of Athens in 1801 by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Carved by the sculptor […]
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 […]
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A Conversation with Dr. Judith F. Baca on the creation, impact and conservation of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. "Standing at the river’s edge, I saw the concreted arroyos as scars in the land. I dreamed of a “tattoo on the scar where the river once ran,” and an endless narrative that would recover […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Join the UCLA Art History Department for the annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring Professor Glenn Wharton with his lecture Why Conserve Cultural Heritage? Reframing a Discipline. This year's lecture will take place virtually on Monday, March 7 from 4 to 5:30 pm. Please RSVP in advance to receive a Zoom link. Please CLICK HERE TO RSVP About Dr. Wharton Glenn Wharton […]
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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 […]
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Speaker: Sarah Sutton Date: February 4, 2022. 11:00am Title: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: D(d)iplomacy for Neighbors and Nations Cultural heritage has been undervalued as a community and national resource in addressing climate change. Historic landscapes are critical waterline buffers and biodiversity habitats. Structures are refuges and examples of resilient construction. Human-made objects and art […]
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 […]
