MONROE — When he retired, professional conservator Mark Gervasi didn’t want to stop preserving history. He’d worked for 30 years at The Henry Ford, and he did conservation projects for the Edsel and ...

Conservators manage, preserve, treat, and document works of art, artifacts, and specimens—work that may require substantial historical, scientific, and archaeological research. Conservators document ...

The proposal, for a union to represent nearly 1,000 employees, would make the Met one of the largest unionized museums in the ...

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 ...

The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection hosted Sarah Scaturro, the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, as their Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecturer Feb. 22. This year’s ...

Museums are always looking to expand their collections, but occasionally a new masterpiece is hiding in plain sight. After examining Cezanne’s Still Life with Bread and Eggs (1865) more closely, ...

The 25,000-square-foot Grainger Center for Conservation and Science will bring together the museum’s 40 specialists in a unified working space for the first time.

Painters paint. Drawers draw. Artists create. But who preserves art so it reaches future generations? At the Ackland Art Museum, Grace White is the woman behind it all – well, at least all things ...

When the Carnegie Museum of Natural History shuttered their Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt last year, many of the museum’s priceless Egyptian relics left the public eye. More than 80 pieces from its ...