Janaya Unlike other visits, the trip to the labs in the National Gallery of Art was focused on the imaging side of art conservation. It was very interesting to see the different machines used. ...
August 4, 2016
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Recently, our group of fellows visited the conservation department at Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware. This site consists of a museum, gardens, and state-of-art conservation facility all...
August 4, 2016
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Feddi Our field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was an amazing opportunity to learn about the many different facets of art conservation. We started our tour in the Greek and Roman gallery...
August 4, 2016
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On Friday, July 22, the Baltimore SciArt and NSF REU students made a day trip into Washington D.C. to visit the labs at the Library of Congress and the National Gallery. The Library of Congress is...
August 4, 2016
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A Brief History of the Walters Art Museum and Conservation
A Brief History of the Walters Art Museum and Conservation What William Walters started, today conservators and conservation scientists at the Walters Art Museum continue:...
July 7, 2016
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We started our project by getting comfortable with some of the different software we will be using, like SolidWorks, and researching some of the concepts and documentation we will...
June 23, 2016
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Over a prolonged period of time, certain materials off-gas a significant amount of chemicals that can damage artifacts. The Oddy test, also known as the Accelerated Corrosion test, shows the...
June 23, 2016
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An investigation in gilded silver conservation
With the help of the Walters Art Museum conservators and conservation scientist, Our team is studying a conservation problem presented by a nineteenth-century Turkish nargile (commonly referred to...
June 23, 2016
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported Summer Research Program in Baltimore at the Interface between Science and Art (Baltimore SCIART) Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Baltimore...
June 7, 2016
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