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...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities....
Photographer Bill Brandt (1904–1983) and sculptor Henry Moore (1898–1986) first crossed paths during the Second World War, when each produced images of civilians sheltering...
Paul Messier made the leap to photography when apprenticing with José Orraca, who was enlisted by Georgia O’Keeffe to preserve Alfred Stieglitz’s prints when photographic...
The Times’ Preserving the Past for Museum Visitors of the Future features research of the IPCH Technical Studies Lab that discovered a painting beneath a painting –...
