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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Cicely Mary Brown would greet fellow volunteers with a kind word and a plate of cookies, according to Burnaby Village Museum conservator Elisabeth Czerwinski. Brown - known as Cice to her friends, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...