Topics in Museum Conservation Lecture Series

MCI staff members are extremely active in presenting their work to both the conservation community and other professional organizations.

• Using Microstructure to Understand Casting Technology: A Case Study from Godin Tepe, Iran
• Historic Wood and the Microbes that Attack it: case studies to better understand the diverse microorganisms that affect wood in different environments
• The Structure of Paintings and the Mechanical Properties of Cultural Materials Course
• Plastics Lifetimes Are Short and Preserving Plastics for the Future
• Thirty Millennia of Tibetan Prehistory
• Environmental Standards: From Rigidity to Responsibility
• Sculpture and Painting Projects from the Straus Center for Conservation
• From Reality to Virtual Reality, and Back Again
• Hygric Swelling of Stone
• An Assessment of the Use of Flame Retardant Plastics for Museum Applications
• Assessment and monitoring lighting conditions in museums
• Let the Envelope Speak... It Is What You Don't Know About the Envelope That Makes a Difference!
• An Evaluation of Supercritical Drying and PEG/Freeze-drying of Waterlogged Archaeological Wood
• Two Isotopic Approaches to Archaeological Questions: Examples from Anglo-Saxon Diet and Turkish Carpet Provenance
• Aging of Oil Paintings: Pigment/Binder Interactions and the Formation of Metal Soaps
• Artistic Intent or Later Addition: Analysis of a toned varnish on E.W. Deming's painting, Indian Hunting Buffalo
• Cyclododecane, Carbon Dating and Other Conservation Curiosities...
• Determining the Acceptable Ranges of Relative Humidity and Temperature in Museums and Galleries
• The Making of Matisse's Bronzes
• Having a Corking Good Time Ironing Things Out: Sub- and Super-Critical Fluids in the Conservation Field
• Saving the Marks: Preserving the Early Evidence of Tools
• Studies on the Identification of Mordanted and Weighted Textiles
• 3D Documentation in Natural History Collections
• The Utah Pottery Project: Historic Archaeology and Materials Science
• Deconstructing a 17th c. Panel Painting by David Teniers and Jan Brueghel Using Confocal X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy
• Problematic Issues in Conservation: An Example of the Jesuit-Guarani Missions in South America
• Preservation and Conservation of the Wooden Tomb Chamber in Tumulus MM at Gordion
• Technical investigation and conservation of two unusual offerings from Mongolia
• How important are Biofilms in Conservation?
• Characterization of synthetic organic pigments and dyes, and heterogeneous natural organic pigments by Raman spectroscopy
• Mural Paintings Research: State of Color Layers, Chemical Cleaning, and Retouching
• King Midas' Golden Touch Rediscovered
• The Prodigal Chairs
• From Fabric Dyes to Fluorescent Paints: Care of Acrylic Paintings in Collections
• William Rimmer's Falling Gladiator: A Puzzle in More Ways than One
• The mummy portraits at University College London: thirty years of conservation research
• Methodologies for the analysis of archaeological food residue: application to the diet of Arctic people
• Sensing Sensitivity: Assessing Light Damage Risks with Noninvasive Exposure Tests on Artifacts
• Chalcolithic Metallurgy: A Re-evaluation of the Chemical Composition of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard by Portable XRF
• The Sex Life of Cockroaches & Other Cautionary Tales
• Material Identification Using Raman Spectroscopy: Teeth, Bone, and Other Curiosities
• Public Program: Objects Conservation
• Today's High Accuracy Laser Measurement Systems and Their Use in Inspection, Reverse Engineering and Design Validation
• EPA's Tribal LifeLine™ Project: An Overview Calculating the Exposure and Risk to Tribal Communities from Chemicals in the Diet and Environment
• The Preservation of the Lodge of Retirement in the Forbidden City
• Research in Preservation of Natural History Collections
• The New Frontier in Digital Photographic Documentation: Harnessing Spectral Sensitivity
• Taking Preservation to the Public
• Assessing Air Pollution in European Museums and Cathedrals
• Nanoporous Gold Leaf - A Traditional Metallurgist Goes High-Tech
• The chemical keys to understanding primate foraging behavior
• AMS Radiocarbon Dating for Museum Collections
• Piecing together the Maya past: conservation at San Bartolo, Guatemala
• X-ray Microanalysis of Vitreous Materials in the Art Museum
• Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Degradation of Fungal Melanin