Museum Conservation Gallery

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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational program

The Brooklyn Museum collection includes twelve monumental alabaster reliefs from the Northwest Palac

This fragment of a bowl is dated to the 12-13th centuries and may be Egyptian or Syrian in origin. I

A team of objects and paintings conservators in the Brooklyn Museum Conservation Lab have been worki

Over a year ago, our conservators began examining some of our ancient Egyptian portrait panel painti

Last month on Tumblr, we gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Brooklyn Museum’s Mesoamerican objects

Conservators at the Brooklyn Museum examined and analyzed the fabric in this egúngún masquerade danc

This frame and its companion painting, Trout (1867) by Walter Brackett, are currently undergoing tre

What goes up must come down. Sometimes what comes down must be carefully organized and housed for lo

How do museum records help conservators take care of objects? This ancient Egyptian Battle Axe with

Our Director’s Circle Members were recently treated to an exclusive curator-led tour of o

In preparation for reopening, KAWS’ Along the Way, was reinstalled in the lobby. The two massi

On May 3, Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha opened at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit showcases Artur’

When this limestone stela entered the collection in 1937 from the New York Historical Society the su

Georgia O’Keeffe was passionate about materials and craft. She brought a measured, fastidious

Why is this ancient Egyptian sculpture cracked? In preparation for theupcoming touring exhibiti

Made in Turkey, this Iznik flask entered the Brooklyn Museum’s collection in the early 1970&rs

Photodocumentation is an important step in the conservation treatment of an object in a museum. In g

As we recently discussed, our paintings and objects conservators are currently investigating the&nbs

Albert Bierstadt’s A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866) last underwent a ma

This display in Ashmolean Museum shows how touching artwork affects material.

During the public treatment of Albert Bierstadt’s A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie,

Conservators in the BKM Conservation Lab have been hard at work preparing objects for a number of up

It’s August and that means Brooklyn Museum is hosting Summer Camp! Each week during the

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