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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
