How to cover a 400 year old mattress? Comparing dusts vacuumed from a chair every three years to tell if it is deteriorating? Condition...

Integrated Pest Management (IPM). It sounds like I wield a tiny whip and chair in my top hat, taming a circus of cockroaches, mice, and...

I hear the occasional grumble. Why is that photo of that object so bad? Why isn’t there an online database? Why are only selected objects...

This week I’m off to the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) annual meeting, this year in...

Evaluating light levels falling on a textile on display. Nope, I’m not a curator; I’m a collections manager. Many visitors who stop me in...

Evaluating light levels falling on a textile on display. Nope, I’m not a curator; I’m a collections manager. Many visitors who stop me in...

The American Museum of Natural History. Photo credit: Daniel Mennerich via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND Interesting? Boring? A memory from a...