Conversations on Conservation of Cultural Heritage

How 'Chief of War' recreated the spirit and history of ancestral Hawaiʻi - The show's co-creator on filming the real-life story and creating authentic props based on historic objects from our 'Hawaiʻi' exhibition.

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Missile Attack on Old Jerusalem - A missile has just struck Jerusalem’s Old City, very near to the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (all UNESCO World H...

Thoughtful Deconstruction or Inappropriate Intervention? - “Thoughtful Deconstruction refers to the conscious removal of elements of a bound item to show physical aspects that were previously hidden. In this presen...

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CPAC and the Keros Haul - CPAC March 2026 The meeting of CPAC in March will be discussing the proposed extension of the cultural property agreement with Greece. The webpage is illu...

A Fond Farewell - By David Haberstich When I accepted the position of coordinator/editor of the Smithsonian Institution Collections Blog about two years ago, I certainly d...

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“Library Collections Come to Life as 3D Models” – a blog from the Library of Congress - In October 2019, our training team at CHI delivered a 4-day photogrammetry class for staff at the Library of Congress (LoC) in Washington, D.C. The class w...

Colored Time - American Artist discusses science fiction in the context of contemporary art and the concept of "Colored Time." The post Colored Time first appeared on A...

Building a little data capture into our admissions process - As I mentioned in my previous post about mapping our digital landscape, we’re not letting the lack of CRM completely get us down. We have...

Don’t work in the lab alone - Working in a lab is safe most of the time, “except when it isn’t, and that’s when being alone compounds the danger,” says a new lab safety video about wo...

Dye-ing at the Museum - On Saturday, June 29 the Chilkat Dye Working Group got together at the museum for some hands-on dye experiments. Here’s some images!

Entrevista sobre barragens de rejeitos no Maranhão - Pessoal, segue matéria com entrevista que dei acerca das barragens de rejeito (Aurizona) e bacia de resíduos (Alumar) no Maranhão. Meu objetivo é trazer ...

Meet Jacob Burckhardt, the thinker who invented 'culture' | Jonathan Jones - The visionary Swiss historian helps us understand our world just as much as his contemporary Karl Marx The bicentenary of the birth of a Swiss historian ...

Chat with AndyBot at AAM 2018 - *In today’s guest post Regina Russian, Digital Accessibility & UX Specialist, and Caroline Record, Creative Technologist at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsb...

The winter solstice begins a season of storytelling and ceremony - In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North o...

Job Opening: NYC Department of Records and Information Services - The NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) seeks an experienced conservator and preservation professional to manage all aspects of the pr...

Positive Propaganda, Munich - Escif Shepard Fairey Blu Aryz Positive-Propaganda is a non-profit art association based in Munich, which is dedicated to establishing contemporary and soc...

Tahitian Mourner's Costume Mounting - We recently installed the Tahitian Mourner's costume into the new Cook-voyage case. To make the complex mount on which the costume is displayed, we work...

Tackling a trumeau - [image: Displaying Library painting.JPG] If I could have one photo represesent my theme "art restoration in Virginia," it would be this one. It has it all...

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Exciting News! - The CSI: Sittingbourne lab is holding a special exhibition, 10:00am – 4:00pm, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for the first two weeks in April (1-11th) + S...

Free download of rediscovered Britten and Auden song - Lost for 60 years, Britten's music for the Auden poem Roman Wall Blues has now been completed, published and recorded – and can be downloaded, free of char...

Culture in Peril is Moving to Wordpress - *Culture in Peril is moving to Wordpress! You can now find me at www.cultureinperil.com.* *Happy Reading*

Conference call for papers: The impact of cross-disciplinary conservation on social development - *16th-17th May 2014**UCL Institute of Archaeology* *A two-day conference organized by the Conservation and Development Network (University College London)...

THE GREAT PARCHMENT BOOK WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE! - The Great Parchment Book website has gone live! You can now start to explore the Great Parchment Book for yourself. A good place to start is the video on t...

Egyptology News 19th-22nd April 2013 - *Copied from @egyptologynews. *Today's photo of the fresco from the Ashmolean Museum, which shows two Amarna princesses, is posted to accompany Campbell ...

Art Packing Video Tutorial (2012) - Title: Art Packing Video Tutorial Uploaded by: ArtInstituteChicago Date: 3 April 2012 Link: http://www.youtube.com/...

Art Theft: Athens UPDATED - Two paintings by Pablo Picasso - "Female Head" which was donated by the artist to the Greek people in recognition for their fight against the Nazis during...

How Connoisseurs Justify an Inherently Illegal Act: Does Legality Undermine Authenticity? - After reading my joint review of Stations of the Elevated and Style Wars, Tony, a longtime friend of mine, asked me a very good question (I bet you thought...

Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian -- Carambelas - Pipebag, c.1890 Hide, glass beads, porcupine quills, sinew. Oglala Lakota: South Dakota. 78 cm x 19 cm x 2 cm *Collection of the NMAI* (14.2585) t As noted b...

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