Trust Talk - Melissa King and Preventive Conservation: Preserving Our Collection

Our final Trust Talk of 2020 was held on December 17 at 7:00 pm ET and featured Melissa King, Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Preventive Conservation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the Museum Conservation Institute, sharing a presentation titled “Preventive Conservation: Preserving Our Collection.” Melissa introduced the field of preventive conservation and best practices for caring for collections in the home. After her presentation, she was joined in conversation with Rebecca Kaczkowski, Preventive Conservator at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute.

Trust Talks is a monthly lecture series hosted by the Decorative Arts Trust that features emerging scholars sharing and discussing their exciting new research with a mentor in the field. The hour-long virtual program includes a lecture, scholar-to-scholar conversation, and Q&A with the program participants.

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Time Stamps:
Lecture begins @1:53
Ten Agents of Deterioration @5:32
Discussion with Rebecca (Becky) Kaczkowski @39:42
Q&A Begins @53:57

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