The Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West receives countless inquiries each year about items in personal collections. Our visitors, whether virtual or not, are an inquiring bunch with many treasures and great questions. Some of this interest in historical items may come from the popularity of Antiques Road Show, a PBS series […]
Different Approaches to Conservation: Decorative Arts Objects vs. Ethnographic Collections Thoughts from Robin Allison, Graduate Student at the University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies – Museum Studies. http://www.ou.edu/content/cls/grad/mams.html One aspect of the artifact conservation process is the analysis of old repairs made to objects. This analysis includes deciding whether an old repair should remain entwined in the provenance and aesthetics of the object. This decision is, […]