Conservation occurs mostly behind the scenes, but the effects of conservation can be seen throughout our galleries. Here are 10 conservation-related stories you can see in the museum right now. Nilotic bowl (2012.1.1) Broken objects can often reveal details about … Read more →
Thousands of glass objects are moved around the Museum by the collections department for exhibition changes, photography, loans, and research every year. Despite their training and experience, sometimes even our expert staff are nervous about moving certain objects. These are … Read more →
As soon as the Fragile Legacy exhibition closed in January, the Museum’s exhibition and collections staff switched gears to prepare for our current exhibition, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics. It took two weeks to remove, or de-install, the popular Blaschka exhibition. Then, … Read more →
There’s no record of how it happened, but sometime in the past 132 years, this glass model of a sea star was broken and lost one of its arms. The model originally had five solid glass arms which were glued … Read more →