News and Events

March 1, 2022
Mike Cummings, Yale News.  Alison Gilchrest, who for over a decade has led national and international initiatives to promote collaboration in the field of cultural heritage...
February 23, 2022
Yale Engineering, 2021-2022 (p.58).  Every artwork comes with its own set of challenges for conservators and curators, not the least of which is curbing the effects of time....
IPCH expands support for Yale Collections, future scholar pipeline
February 3, 2022
Jon Atherton, Yale West Campus News.  Yale’s IPCH has expanded its efforts to research, innovate, and train the next generation of conservation scientists with the...
Pencil of Nature, cover
January 26, 2022
James Strachan, The Analyical Scientist. Richard Hark, LIBS expert and conservation scientist at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, reveals his...
Vinland?
September 30, 2021
Alan Yuhas, NY Times. For decades, researchers at Yale and elsewhere have questioned the authenticity of a map that seemed to reflect Viking travels to North America. The...
Summer intern Thais Shepard in the lab at the IPCH
September 16, 2021
Jon Atherton, Yale West Campus News. Yale undergraduates and a steady stream of trainees are experiencing the arts, sciences, and humanities all under one roof – and all in...