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.
- Paint Technology and the Abstract Expressionists
- Driving Biological Discovery Using Mass Spectrometry
- Biocolonization of Stone: Control and Preventive Measures Workshop (Registration)
- Raman Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool for the Art Conservator
- The analysis of organic materials in works of art: an enduring challenge
- 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