Art Conservation
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Public Outreach

Both the undergraduate and graduate programs in art conservation have a history of public outreach. In July of 2007 the Department released a DVD about conservation and conservation training. The introduction to that DVD can be viewed from this webpage.

Additional chapters can be viewed at other pages on this site including Master’s Program and What is Art Conservation?.

Conservation Clinic

WUDPAC faculty and students share their knowledge about the care of works of art of all materials with collectors, curators, caretakers, or scholars of works of art or cultural property. As part of the museum’s and the university’s missions of public service, advice on condition, care, and possible treatment is offered without charge. Paintings, textiles, works of art on paper, books and archival documents, photographic materials, furniture and decorative, archaeological and ethnographic objects are welcomed with their caretakers for 30-minute appointments.

The clinic is held on Thursday afternoons at:

Copeland Lecture Hall of the Winterthur Museum Pavilion Route 52 Greenville, DE 19807

Appointments are required. Call: Mary Walton at 302-888-4974

NOTE: Monetary appraisals and authentication of objects will not be given. There is a limit of three works per appointment.

Conservation Department Tours

The public has opportunies for a behind the scenes look into the conservation labs at Winterthur. Since 2001, a subset of Winterthur’s guiding staff has been trained to give public tours through the conservation facility on the first Wednesday of each month.