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Category Archives: Conservation
Treatment of Portrait of a Man
In preparation for the paper rotation that recently went on view in our second floor, the works were examined and, if necessary, stabilized before going on view. Portrait of a Man is a Western-style painting of a man standing in … Continue reading
Posted in Arts of Asia, Conservation
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All Geared Up for a Timely Repair
For 19th-Century Modern, which opened last month, the conservation department undertook the cleaning and stabilization of many objects, among them the five-piece silvered bronze candlesticks and clock/thermometer set that forms the centerpiece of the exhibition. The set was created by … Continue reading
A Tree Blossoms in Brooklyn
In preparation for the exhibition Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, conservators took part in preparing and installing Blossom, 2010, a recent acquisition to the collection. Blossom is a mixed-media installation depicting a life-size sculpture of an oak tree extending out … Continue reading
Repairing the Book of the Dead
Repairing papyrus can be a little like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in the lab. One method … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Egyptian Art
Tagged bookofthedead, egypt, mummychamber, papyrus
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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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Elvis is in the building
Elvis is at the Brooklyn Museum and not where you’d expect to find him—in the new installation of the Museum’s African galleries, African Innovations. Brooklyn’s Elvis is a ceremonial mask of the Nyau Society of the Chewa peoples, who reside … Continue reading
Posted in Arts of Africa, Conservation
Tagged africaninnovations, collection, exhibitions, reinstallation
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Many Hours for a Split Second
With the initiation of the project Split Second, Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art selected a very large number (185) of works from the Museum’s Indian Painting collection to post on our website for the Split Second survey. Both Conservator … Continue reading
35 Animal Mummies meet Twitter and Instagr.am
If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us on Twitter and Instagr.am because we are going to accompany the conservators and curators and … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Egyptian Art, Technology
Tagged instagram, mummy, mummyCT, twitter
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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
Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital
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
Radiocarbon (carbon-14) Dating of Book of the Dead of Sobekmose
Our research to further understand the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose continues. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating was one of the first scientific analytical techniques that we employed to confirm the date for this piece, thought to be … 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
Looking for Adhesives and Identifying Binders in the Book of the Dead Using FTIR
Another scientific analytical technique commonly used in art conservation is called Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy, or FTIR. The Brooklyn Museum’s Paper Conservation Lab employed this technique to continue analysis of the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of … Continue reading
Analyzing Pigments in the Book of the Dead Using XRF Spectroscopy
One of the many scientific analytical techniques used in art conservation is called X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, or XRF. The Paper Conservation Lab here at the Brooklyn Museum is using this technique to study the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead … Continue reading
IR and UV Examination of Egyptian Papyrus
Following Rachel’s previous discussion on pigments and inks used in our Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, I will begin here our discussion of the different examination and analytical techniques we employ in conservation and the … Continue reading
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