Last year the Museum acquired an interesting new object. It is a panel made up of two rectangular sheets of assembled thin glass rods with painted paper cutouts sandwiched between them and held together at the edges with paper tape. … Read more →
A lot of objects come into the conservation lab because their previous repairs need to be redone. Sometimes the old adhesive fails and the object falls apart in our hands. But often the old repairs need to be redone more for aesthetic reasons … Read more →
The treatments we do in the conservation lab range from simple to very complicated. This is a relatively simple treatment I recently finished. The foot on this Venetian goblet broke. To repair it the break edges were carefully cleaned. The … Read more →
I became the museum’s assistant conservator just a few months before the new conservation lab opened. We have certainly made good use of the extra space! The lab is full with all kinds of glass objects in need of some … Read more →