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Despite conservation�s long history of outreach and the energy that is currently going into presenting the field to museum audiences and others, outreach remains underrepresented in the conservation literature. Conservators may increasingly be more comfortable talking to the public about what they do but, until recently, have been reluctant to talk amongst themselves about how to approach these interactions. This volume of papers presented at a conference (Playing to the Galleries and Engaging New Audiences: The Public Face of Conservation) in Williamsburg,Virginia, confronts the issues which arise when conservators find themselves asked to present their efforts not only through traditional means (exhibits, lectures, behind-the-scenes tours etc.) but also via blogs, podcasts, video learning and other emerging technologies.
The most comprehensive collection of papers on this subject to appear to date. [...] The range of case studies presented here is wide and well chosen [...] An interesting and useful addition to the literature about public outreach in conservation.
Foreword
Section 1: The Public Face of Conservation
1. Culture and Anarchy: Considering Conservation
Mary Brooks
2. Conservation Curiosity: An Irreversible Trend
Lois Olcott Price and Lois Stoehr
3. Liverpool�s Conservation Centre: Fourteen Years of Public Access
Siobhan Watts, Eleanor Baumber, Annemarie La Pens�e and Sally Ann Yates
4. Fixing History: The Public Sphere and the Transfiguration of Conservation.
Annlinn Kruger
5. Conservation Outreach and Issues of Cultural Authority: Making Inroads into a Special Interest Community
John Watson
6. Textile Conservation and the Museum Public
Caterina Florio
7. Conservation and the Museum�s New Role
Maria Grammatikou
Section 2: Technical Art History, Technology and Outreach
8. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Using X-radiographs of the National Air and Space Museum�s Spacesuit Collection to Promote Preservation
Lisa Young and Mark Avino
9. Rivera Returns to MoMA: The Story of an Exhibition
Cynthia Albertson and Anny Aviram
10. Change or Damage? Using Dissemination to Encourage Public Involvement in Conservation Research
Naomi Luxford, Matja Strlic and David Thickett
11. Digital Afterlife: Modern Technology Reveals Secrets of Brooklyn�s Mummies
Kerith Koss, Jakki Godfrey, Tina March and Lisa Bruno
12. Bringing an Old Ship to New Audiences: Publicizing the U.S.S. Monitor Conservation Project
Eric Nordgren
Section 3: Conservation Outreach and Educational Programming
13. Bridging the Gap Between Science and Art: A behind-the-scenes introduction to art conservation for science students from Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria Virginia at the Lunder Conservation Center, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery
Amber Kerr-Allison, Hugh Shockey, and Milde Waterfall
14. From One Student to Many:Multilayered Approaches to Conservation Outreach in the K-12 Arena
Sarah Barack and Beth Edelstein
15. Treasure Keepers: A CSI Approach to Conservation for Students
William Wagner and Abigail Schumann
16. Where Art and Science Meet: Education Programming for Colonial Williamsburg�s Conservation Exhibit
Patricia Balderson and Emily Williams
17. Behind the Scenes at the Getty Villa: Conservation Outreach for Kids
Colleen Snyder
18. Julia Child�s Kitchen as a Conservation Classroom
Mary Coughlin, Paula Johnson and Lauren Andersen
19. The Conservation Lab as a Teaching Resource
Ren�e Stein and Kathyrn Etre
20. Conservation Outreach at the National Institutes of Health in the National Library of Medicine
Kristi Davenport, Holly Herro, Peter Gabriele, and E. Dever Powell
Section 4: Exhibiting Conservation
21. Conservation in the Public Eye: Musings from the Other Side of the Glass
Suzanne Thomassen-Kraus
22. Quilts Under the Microscope: An Educational Iniative Communicating Conservation and Care Issues for Quilts and Heirloom Textiles
Patricia Crews and Marin Hanson
23. Conserving the Carolina Room
Shelley Svoboda
24. Making Exhibitions of Ourselves
Ian McClure
25. Presenting Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet
Emily Williams
26 Connecting to Conservation at the Kelsey Museum
Suzanne Davis
27. Visitor Research on Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
28. Through the Looking Glass: Guest Experience and the Wondrous World of Conservation at the Musical Instrument Museum
Irene Peters
29. The Conservation Window at the Walters Art Museum: Building Conservation Support by Creating Public Value
Jessica Arista and Terry Drayman-Weisser
30. Preserving Ideas that are Worth Fighting for: Textile Conservation in the Public Eye at the People�s History Museum, Manchester, UK
Vivian Lochhead and Leanne C Tonkin
Section 5: Conservation Outreach and Community Involvement
31. Falmouth: a Lesson in Preservation
Matthew Webster
32. Lifting the Barriers: Widening Involvement in Conservation at the Museum of London
Helen Ganiaris and Rebecca Lang
33. Conservation Outreach Materials for a Tribal Museum without Conservators
Ellen Pearlstein and Dawn Lohnas
34. Written in Stone: the Role of State Government in Approaches to Cemetery Preservation
Caitlin R. O�Grady, Joanna Wilson Green, Jolene L.U. Smith, Michael B. Barber and C. Diane DeRoche
35: Preserving the Past through Public Outreach: The H.L. Hunley and a Decade of Discovery
Johanna Rivera and Raegan Quinn
36. Professional Outreach and Public Conservation: Examples from the Washington Conservation Guild
Howard Wellman and Lisa Young
37. Preaching Preservation: Extending Preservation Knowledge Beyond the Conservation Team
Christopher McAfee
38. Jamestown: Putting a Public Face on Conservation
Dan Gamble
Section 6: Discussion
39. Discussion
40. Discussion from Exhibiting Ourselves: Presenting Conservation
Emily Williams and Suzanne Davis