Almost everything in the Museum’s collection gets washed at least once in its lifetime. Having a collection of more than 45,000 objects – that is still growing – means we spend a lot of time washing glass. Every new accession … Read more →
Last week chief conservator, Stephen Koob, and I were in Ottawa at the Canadian Conservation Institute’s “Adhesives and Consolidants for Conservation: Research and Applications” Symposium. We went to present a new technique for filling losses in glass which was developed at … Read more →
We tend to think of glass as a very stable material that doesn’t corrode, but that isn’t always true. Glass can and does corrode. The chemical that is most harmful to glass is something we consider fairly harmless, namely water. … Read more →
Some of the old repairs on this jug recently came undone when it was picked up. The jug was restored before it came into the collection, so we don’t know what materials were used or how old the repairs are. … Read more →