At its annual open house, Weissman Preservation Center staff members shared their work with visitors from across Harvard.
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Weissman Preservation Center hosted its annual open house on April 9, and as soon as the event began, people flooded into the lab. Over the course of the two-hour open house, close to 100 people from all across the Harvard community came through to see what projects the conservation team is working on.
The conservators, technicians, and interns had objects out from nine libraries across campus and are doing treatment with a variety of different objectives, such as:
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collection maintenance
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large digitization projects, such as a collection of cryptogamic and vascular plant drawings from the Botany Libraries being treated for digitization (right)
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the preparation of items for loan, including:
- items from the Fine Arts Library that are being loaned to the Imperial War Museum in London
- an illuminated manuscript from Houghton that will go on loan to the Getty Center
Thank you to everyone who came out to see our work, and for those who missed it, this is an annual event, so keep an eye out for the next chance to visit the conservation lab!
By Kate Levy, Conservation Technician for Special Collections in the Weissman Preservation Center