Follow the pathway between the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and the Biblical Garden and you will find a Greek Revival building – the oldest existing structure in Morningside Heights. It is the ...

Over 100 members of the Yale community gathered June 19 for the formal dedication of a state-of-the-art conservation laboratory shared by all collections at Yale. President Peter Salovey spoke at the ...

As I arrive at the Brooklyn Museum early on a Monday morning, conservators and conservators-in-training are reviewing the developments of the previous week, readying themselves for the tasks that lie ...

Cornell University Library’s most valuable holdings—from a handwritten copy of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to a rare folio of Shakespeare’s early plays, to a 15th century encyclopedia from ...

In art institutions across the globe, time machines and investigation rooms exist behind closed doors. Dusty artworks go in and come out looking centuries younger; artists’ secrets are brought to ...

Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credit... Supported by By Molly Young Photographs and Video by Nicholas Calcott Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book ...

Seriously. “Open conservation,” or art-restoration labs set up to be viewed, and sometimes, interacted with, are increasingly a part of museums’ offerings. By Lauren Sloss In the never-ending quest ...

Located within the University Library, the conservation lab treats both circulating and non-circulating material. Conservation staff complete a variety of repairs from the simple to the complex.