More than thirty object professional conservators and conservation preparators conduct their work in modern facilities located in the Museum's Henry R. Kravis Wing, working closely with Museum curators. The laboratories are equipped for a variety of analytical and investigative methods, including X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet-fluorescence microscopy, metallography, and radiography. Conservators benefit greatly from close collaboration with the Museum's conservation scientists and additional analytical facilities housed in the Department of Scientific Research.
Objects conservators embarked on a challenging project: moving a 25-foot marble structure from The Cloisters to the Main Building.
Objects conservators recently applied two approaches for restoring losses to a stained-glass window.
The Metropolitan's collection of Chinese religious sculpture is the largest outside of Asia. The availability of new scholarly information, analytical techniques, and recent archaeology in China prompted the Museum to take an in-depth study of the collection.
