A5011385277- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Building materials and conservation
- Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
George Washington University
2010-2025
University of Chicago Medical Center
1979
University of Illinois Chicago
1979
Objects manufactured from cellulose acetate comprise one of the most problematic groups plastic in collections Smithsonian Institution's National Museum American History (NMAH). To understand better degradation, a ‘salesman's sample kit’ ‘Lumarith’ brand, injection-molded, color samples, by Celluloid Company early twentieth century and now NMAH collection, was studied using minimally invasive analytical techniques at Conservation Institute (MCI). The kit includes 49 coupons that vary color,...
Prisoners-of-war captured by the British during French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and Napoleonic (1803–1815) often worked assembly line style using scrap materials leftover rations to make ship models that were sold at markets. Since these created based on prisoners’ memories rather than plans, they have inaccuracies. Despite this, prisoner-of-war are considered be some of best records maritime vessels from England France war years. Many made wood but most prized bone. The description a...
The Museum Studies Program at the George Washington University created an online graduate certificate program in Collections Management and Care (MCMC) order to address need for accessible affordable training museum professionals. distance education consists of four courses that cover legal ethical issues, collections management preventive conservation.
MS. COUGHLIN, R.N., B.S.N., is a staff nurse in the Pedlatric Neurology Clinic at University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago
This special issue of the Journal American Institute for Conservation on collection care grew out an initiative AIC’s Collection Care Network to develop resources that both represent a...