By Kylin Cummings, Director of Collections Thanksgiving Point was established in 1995 as a gift from Alan Ashton to his wife Karen to show gratitude for the community and the natural world. It has five discovery venues including the Mountain America Museum of Ancient...
Why would we write a post on the average art conservator salary? At Conserv, we believe in the Team approach to collections care. Working with a multidisciplinary team in a library, archive, gallery or museum means we should not only be able to collaborate and work...
Storing books requires careful consideration of several environmental factors. Book storage temperature has an interesting relationship to conservation goals, which is mostly (although not entirely) due to how temperature and relative humidity relate to each other....
The design and implementation of appropriate museum lighting is a crucial element of both collections care and curatorial decision making. In this blog post, we will talk about the use of natural and artificial light sources in museum lighting design. By understanding...
Getting objects loaned from another museum or collecting institution for a specific exhibition or if you are doing the loaning is a exhaustive process for good reason. Much of our cultural property is damaged in transport in between institutions, so protection during...
Are you a museum conservator? Perhaps you just finished a contract, or maybe you will be graduating from your conservation program soon, or maybe you are just considering switching jobs. You know that finding museum conservator jobs can be a challenge. You have...
