FACILITY
The Conservation Department (functioning at its inception in the 1960s in a basement room) was relocated to an upper floor of the museum building in 1983 to provide a more efficient and enlarged work space. The current facility of 5,000 square feet includes a photographic studio, a library, an office area, and a large laboratory space equipped with built-in counters and moveable central tables. The analytical area includes a fume hood, binocular and polarizing-light microscopes, and supplies for wet chemical testing. Equipment for water purification, for fume absorption, for environmental monitoring (e.g. light meters, hygrothermograph machines, and a psychrometer) was purchased over several years by Museum, private, and public funds (e.g., NEA, NEH, NSF, and IMLS).
The conservation library, which includes standard conservation reference books, preprints from conferences and current conservation publications and journals, has been partially supported by an initial gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and through private donations.
The Museum currently supports two full-time conservators, budgets for conservation equipment and supplies, and partial funding for the conservation internship training program. Funding proposals are submitted by the Administrative Head of Conservation to agencies and foundations to further support conservation internship stipends and to cover fees for analytical services. In recent years, the Museum has received several gifts from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation whose support of the conservation internship program is gratefully acknowledged and appreciated.
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