The museum’s conservators and curators, experts said, must decide what exactly they want a repair to look like, and how they want it to inform the life of the artwork.

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

The Bryce Canyon Wildlife Conservation Museum promotes conservation through its large collection of taxidermy. (Photo: Ton Schless) For the last five years, Schless has been meticulously ...

William Donnelly, affiliated assistant professor of art conservation, turned his kitchen into a teaching space during the spring semester of 2020. Here, he facilitates an exercise where students, ...

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s new entomologist is an all-around naturalist with a flair for wielding the ...

This is the conservation lab at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The museum, which reopened its doors to masked visitors June 16 and is offering free admission until Aug. 16, houses thousands of pieces ...

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

Conservator Jessica Chloros works to restore a piece from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection.By Courtney Goodrich Jessica Chloros has an intriguing, creative career, but people outside ...

With the help of the Mellon largesse, master conservators from Beijing and Shanghai have been alternating in six-month stints to mentor the museum’s Chinese paintings conservator, hired in 2014.

Some recent work by the conservation team is on display in The Light Show exhibition on view now at the museum. The lab is inside the Martin Building, which is set to reopen in June 2020.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Penn Museum in University City unwraps a lab exhibit where mummy conservation is going on. The exhibit is called "In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies ...