8/4/2022
A whole team helped clean the galleries in a gallery-wide dust-up (or down!). Next time you visit the museum, take a minute to think about all the unseen work that goes into keeping all parts of the museum looking their best.
7/28/2022
This week in objects conservation: We have finished coating removal and cleaning of one of the 44 pieces of our Jain Shrine!
7/21/2022
Our paintings conservator dons an organic vapor mask, turns on the exhaust trunks, and begins brushing thirty-five square feet plus of painted canvas!
7/7/2022
Conservation can take you strange places--like up a ladder in a 1929 bedroom!
6/30/2022
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading about their treatment progress and enjoy seeing them back in the galleries on your next visit!
6/23/2022
Now that the Murillo has been cleaned of varnish and retouching, it’s time to address its structural support, in other words, the canvas and stretcher.
6/15/2022
When private owners generously allow the museum to display their pieces, the conservators sometimes need to put a little effort into stabilizing them before they go into the gallery. This was the case with a monumental woodcut print by Albrecht Dürer that will soon be seen in the Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Joseph Urban exhibit.
6/9/2022
This carpet is a whopping 25’ by 18,’ easily one of the largest textiles in the collection.
5/26/2022
Cleaning of the very large painting by the Spanish artist, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, has begun.
5/12/2022
This beaded bag from the 1920s is in the textile conservation lab for some stabilization where some of the beading threads were broken, but it presented a special challenge...
5/12/2022
Elayna Berry and Preston Franklin decided to take full advantage of our gorgeous Alice Bimel Courtyard.
5/6/2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month,a time dedicated to reducing the stigma associated with mental and behavioral health issues.
5/5/2022
This week in objects conservation: In contrast to our very large Jain shrine, this week we are working on a very tiny shrine!
4/28/2022
Our paintings conservator is readying another painting for our upcoming exhibition Henry Mosler Behind the Scenes: In Celebration of the Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial.
4/20/2022
Something unique about our venue is that we have events 12 months a year, even on cold December nights. The warmth of love between Sarah Wullenweber and Ronald Vieira was captured beautifully by photographer Samuel Greenhill.
4/14/2022
This silk chiffon scarf--part of a dress by designer Anna Jeanne Hallée designed in 1924—is undergoing conservation for significant loss and weakness where only shreds and threads remained around the central section.
4/7/2022
This week in objects conservation: We take another look at the progress being made on our 17th C Jain Shrine.
3/31/2022
Conservation has begun on one of the tallest paintings in the museum.
3/17/2022
The Fashion and Textile Collection has a new gift! And it’s part of a set!
3/10/2022
This week in objects conservation: another large architectural object has entered the conservation lab!
3/3/2022
Conservation of the large still-life by an anonymous 17th century Neapolitan artist is finally finished.
2/25/2022
The painting Moret at Sunset by Alfred Sisley served as the framework for this beautiful wedding.
2/24/2022
More Asian paintings have moved through the paper lab on their way to be conserved by a scroll mounting specialist.
2/17/2022
It’s true that fashions come back around!
2/10/2022
This week in the objects conservation lab: A beautiful wooden cabinet inlaid with ivory and brass.
2/3/2022
Here’s another close encounter in the paintings conservation studio that you would be unlikely to see in our galleries.
1/20/2022
It’s getting weavy weird in the textile conservation lab this week!
12/16/2021
This week in objects conservation, we’re doing the finishing touches to the 100+ objects being installed in our newly renovated Ancient Middle East Gallery, opening Saturday, December 18.
12/9/2021
Be sure to stop by Gallery 227 to see Still Life in Blue with Lemon after its visit to Conservation.