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About Tina March

Tina March is an assistant conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum where she has been since receiving her M.A. in Conservation from Buffalo State College in 2001. She has a B.A. in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware. Previous internships include The Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum and The National Museum of the American Indian.
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Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Tina March

Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned.  (See Lisa Bruno and Ed Bleiberg’s blogs about the previous mummies). Lady Gautseshenu, … Continue reading…

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Q&A about the Conservation of objects for “To Live Forever”

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Tina March

“To Live Forever” is finally up at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and they have done an amazing job posting a wealth of information on their website. The latest bit to go up is a Q&A session about the conservation … Continue reading…

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Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Continues

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Tina March

To recap previous blogs, the mummy of Demetrios is wrapped in linen, then the entire surface of the linen is painted with red lead. On top of that are areas of gilded decoration. The next step in preparing Demetrios for … Continue reading…

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Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Begins

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Tina March

I’m back from leave, and during the last several months we’ve been busily getting all of the objects ready for the “To Live Forever, Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum“exhibition. In this post, I’ll talk about the conservation of Demetrios … Continue reading…

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Demetrios gets CT scanned

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Tina March

Photo by Adam Husted Sorry for the delay in this post, but it was a long process organizing the CT scans. When we unpacked Demetrios, we were happy to find that the packing supported him well, and he had survived … Continue reading…

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Demetrios goes for a ride

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Tina March

While Marc was visiting us from the Getty to carry out XRF on our mummy Demetrios, we decided to give Marc a sample of the linen used to wrap him, to perform radiocarbon dating (C14). A small sample (2-5mg) of … Continue reading…

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The Getty Visits Demetrios

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Tina March

On July 5, Marc Walton, a scientist with the Getty Conservation Institute came to examine one of our mummies, knows as Demetrios. He brought a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) machine with him. With this non-destructive technique, he can take readings … Continue reading…

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Meet our mummy, Demetrios

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Tina March

       I would like to introduce you to Demetrios. Demetrios is a mummy in the Brooklyn Museum collection that will be traveling across the country starting summer 2008 along with over 100 Egyptian artifacts from our collection in an exhibition … Continue reading…

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Being Green

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Tina March

Lisa is on vacation this week, so I’ll be updating the blog in her absence. We apologize to everyone who came out to see our talk on Saturday. Due to the rain showers, we had to cancel, but we hope … Continue reading…

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