News and Events

March 8, 2016
Friday, March 11th, 2016 at 3:00 PM Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Lecture Hall, 128 Wall St Entrance, New Haven, CT Host: Dr. Lukasz Bratasz Contact:...
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
February 23, 2016
Science magazine features the work at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) through Ian McClure, Chair of its Conservation Laboratory and...
February 23, 2016
A collaboration between Jens Stenger, Associate Conservation Scientist at the IPCH Technical Studies Lab, and Roxane Sperber of the Yale Center for British Art, has revealed...
January 16, 2016
Even though quite small, the tablet of YBC 7289 contains one of the most famous mathematical texts from ancient Mesopotamia, a civilization that flourished between the fourth...
Dr. Catherine Stephens cutting cotton paper samples to be exposed to cycling humidity environments
December 16, 2015
One of the foremost threats to the effective safekeeping of a museum or gallery’s paper-based collection is changes in the humidity. IPCH’s Dr. Paul Whitmore and Dr....
Photo credit: Darcy Tuttle
November 25, 2015
A panel discussion in the Whitney Humanities Center on November 12th focussed on the issues around cultural heritage and terrorism. Amr Al-Azm (Shawnee State University),...