Dee Stubbs-Lee says she was born to be a conservator at the New Brunswick Museum. "I've always been a museum nerd," she said, adding she always imagined being able to work with the collections at the ...

How do you clean a nearly 140-year-old oil painting? Well, if you're Manitoba Museum conservator Carolyn Sirett, you roll up your sleeves, roll a cotton swab and put your muddy where your mouth is.

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Open Centre for the Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM) are working with the conservation team at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) to help preserve ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dawn Wallace and Richard Barden stood in the museum's objects conservation lab over two shoes. Red. Sequin-covered. Small heels. Petite in size.

CODY - When it comes to giving an antique or collectible the old spit-and-polish treatment, one museum expert advises trying the spit but perhaps skipping the polish. "We clean things sometimes with ...

George Nicholas' talk starts at 49:30. This event is the first in a series of “Keyword” panel discussions, a new component of Bard Graduate Center’s multi-year Cultures of Conservation initiative ...

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning, conservators at the ...

Dee Stubbs-Lee, a conservator at the New Brunswick Museum, doing conservation treatment on a wheelchair – one of the artifacts to be displayed in the exhibition Legacy of Victory: New Brunswick in the ...