Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
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Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage is a research collaborative, dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of material culture. Our work connects Yale students, scholars, and collections, catalyzing wide-ranging partnerships that bridge art and science in a unique space for learning, creativity, and innovation.
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When Yale Library conservators and collection managers puzzled over the presence of arsenic in the letters of Ezra Stiles, the university’s seventh president, they turned to...
From Mar. 2 to Jun. 29, the Yale Center for British Art and Lens Media Lab at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage will offer a five-month long program...
The COVID shutdowns have given museums a chance to rethink visitor accessibility. This summer, the Smithsonian asked Yale engineering students to help design exhibits that...
IPCH’s Alison Gilchrest on museum board diversity: “There are three facets to museums’ commitments to equity, social justice, and other goals—training, collection, and...
