It's our #OpenAccess #ArticleOfTheMonth! Published in the book " Collection Care: Environmental Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Risk Management," this paper discusses the development of a conservation-focused curriculum to advance analysis of temperature and relative humidity

📚 New to the Conservation Collection 📚. Recent additions include books about wax figures, ethical aspects of collection management, color in art, Islamic glass vessels, antiquarian gemstone collections, Celtic goldwork, the teaching of architectural preservation, and the

We concluded our “Changing Climate Management Strategies” workshop last Friday—the final iteration in a series of three region-based workshops held around the world. On Thursday, participants learned about the ways science can support climate management strategies. A lecture on

We’re halfway through our “Changing Climate Management Strategies” workshop, and it’s been an inspiring few days of learning, collaboration, and hands-on discovery. This Tuesday kicked off with a session on Damage, Change & Value—a core topic exploring how environmental

🌅 AATA Summer Update 🌻. The summer 2025 update includes abstracts on the conservation of modern oil paintings, detached frescoes, glass mosaics, contemporary architecture, and metals; analyses from exhibition catalogs; and from AIC postprints.

📢 SR2A 2025 Early Bird Registration Now Available Until July 20! 📢. Synchrotron Radiation and Neutrons in Art and Archaeology International Conference.🗓️ October 6–10, 2025.📍Getty Center, Los Angeles.🔗Register: Join us to discuss and network on the

Do you have a favorite designed landscape or plaza from the twentieth century? While we often discuss buildings when looking to modern heritage conservation, landscape architecture also had a key role in shaping the built environment of the twentieth century. The significance of

This week, we’re excited to welcome participants to the third installment of the "Changing Climate Management Strategies: Sustainable Collection Environments and Monitoring Object Response" workshop, taking place July 7–11, 2025. Hosted for the first time at the Getty Center,

Getty Global Art and Sustainability Fellows will contribute to critical priorities around sustainable management of heritage resources, apply cutting-edge science to the cultural sector, and communicate the cultural dimensions of the climate and biodiversity crises to broader.

AATA Featured Subject Term: mosaics. Mosaics are an architectural surface decoration used since Antiquity. They are made by inserting small, generally hand-cut quadrangular elements (tesserae) made of stone, ceramic, or glass of different colors into a soft bedding layer that

Understanding an object’s sensitivity to light is essential for its care. One tool conservation professionals, including ours at the GCI, use to do this is the microfading tester, or MFT. The MFT shines a beam of light—smaller than the tip of a pencil and 10 times brighter than

It's time for another free #DigitalResource in conservation! The recently refined and expanded STiCH Carbon Calculator is designed for conservation professionals looking to reduce their carbon footprint in their everyday work

📚 New Getty Publication! 📚. “Cai Guo-Qiang: The Artist’s Materials”. This book is an intimate look at the creative process of an artist known for his innovative and insurgent work. The first living artist to be featured in the Getty Conservation Institute's The Artist’s

📖 New GCI Publication! 📖. "Advancing Earthen Heritage Conservation: A Survey on Challenges and Research Priorities in the Field". 🔗 Read the open-access publication online or download the free PDF: For more than three decades, the GCI has demonstrated

Are you an emerging professional interested in the use of synchrotron and neutron applications to cultural heritage studies?. Join us at SR2A 2025 and sign up by July 14 to take part in the Emerging Professionals Seminar! 🔗 The Emerging Professionals

It's #FreeFriday! Today we are pleased to share "Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice," available for the first time as a free, downloadable publication

Did you miss our conversation with artist Lita Albuquerque? No problem!. 🔗 You can now a recording of the event on our YouTube: Following a screening of the latest film in our Artist Dialogues film series, “Lita Albuquerque: Dust to Dust” (2025),

It's our #OpenAccess #ArticleOfTheMonth! This month's article presents a quantitative approach to the study of Asian lacquer surfaces combining non-contact, non-invasive, and non-destructive surface metrology and data science techniques