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About Lisa Bruno
Lisa Bruno is the head conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum, where she has been working since 1993. She has previously worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has had internships at The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and in private practice. She has a Masters Degree in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware, Winterthur Museum Art Conservation Department. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation.We felt the earth move under our feet
Yes folks. The quake was felt here at the Brooklyn Museum. Unlike our colleagues in California, Tennessee and even Indianapolis, we Brooklynites do not live along a major fault line. Consequently, we tend not to make earthquake preparedness a high … Continue reading
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Animal Mummies – X-radiography, and coming soon – CT scans!
These past few weeks we have been steadily packing and preparing to transport a group of animal mummies to the Animal Medical Center (AMC) for CT scanning with radiologist Anthony Fischetti, DVM, MS. In earlier blog posts we described the … Continue reading
So How Do You Set Up a Tipi?
That’s exactly the question we were asking ourselves when Nancy Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller organizing Curators for Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains put not one but four tipis on the checklist. The exhibition opens February 18, 2011 continuing … Continue reading
Cents Sign Traveling From Broadway to Africa via Guadeloupe
When I first saw Chryssa’s neon sculpture in storage in late 2004, the object was in an unexhibitable state, missing the two end pieces of the Plexiglas box, with scratches and small losses on the existing sides of the box. We … Continue reading
Birdmaster Tames the Lion
To those of you who are regular readers to this blog, you may remember my colleague, Jakki Godfrey’s post from May 27 detailing the deinstallation of the dragon and zinc lion to accommodate roof work. Over the summer, both objects … Continue reading
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Animal Mummy Update
Those of you who are 1stfans got an introduction to the animal mummy research project being done at the Museum when we held an informal presentation about the project to look at some x-radiographs and see some animal mummies up … Continue reading
The Installation of Reception
Through the generosity of Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Museum recently acquired a multiple component installation piece made by the artist Vadis Turner, which will be included as part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The installation titled … Continue reading
Mummy Transport
As some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned—short for computed tomography. Although the bodies were well preserved with the … Continue reading
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Thothirdes
Thothirdes may be familiar to those of you who have seen her on display in the 3rd floor Egyptian Galleries. She was deinstalled and brought up to the lab this week so that we could prepare her for a trip … Continue reading
More on mummies…
In addition to continuing to x-ray the animal mummies, the Conservation Lab has started preparing to send several human mummies to North Shore University Hospital. Some readers of this blog may remember that we took the Mummy Demetrius to North … Continue reading
Animal Mummy Research
This past Saturday as part of programming for 1stfans at the Brooklyn Museum, I gave a presentation on the animal mummy research the Conservation Department is doing with the Museum’s Egyptian Curator Ed Bleiberg. The presentation was fun and interactive … Continue reading
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Tagged collection, egypt, mummy, mummychamber
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Schenck Re-Installation 2007
Slideshow created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Having trouble seeing the slideshow? Photos are also on Flickr. These slides show the Jan Martense Schenck House as it is being installed in its new location on the 4th floor. In the first few … Continue reading
What does it take to install the Period Rooms?
Q: What does it take to install the Period Rooms? A: A whole lot of people! In future posts, we’ll describe how the Schenck House was moved, but right now we are in the thick of preparing the entire floor … Continue reading
Why did we paint the Schenck House red?
The Jan Martense Schenck House is scheduled to re-open to the public in July. It has moved from its original location on the 4th floor to a new location that situates it next to the house of Nicholas Schenck, the … Continue reading
Primer is Complete
The primer is complete. See the video! It is too humid today to apply the topcoat, and thundershowers are expected later this evening. Tomorrow is First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. My colleague, objects conservator Tina March and I will … Continue reading
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