Our Facilities
The Art Conservation Department, located in Rockwell Hall, operates in a newly-renovated and expanded, our 6,434-square-foot space designed to support conservation teaching and research. Our spaces include well-equipped workshops, studios, and laboratories for each conservation specialty of objects, paintings, and paper conservation, as well as for instruction in conservation imaging, examination, and documentation, and conservation science.
Our department is proud of our radiographic facility and digital imaging lab, its analytical instrumentation and its study collections of pigments and other historical materials used by artists and craftsmen. The department has its own extensive branch library that is supplemented by E. H. Butler Library.
Dan Kushel Conservation Imaging, Technical Examination, and Documentation Lab
Supporting the department's unique four-semester curriculum in examination and documentation are outstanding technical examination and photographic resources at the forefront of the field. Our brand new facilities on the third floor of Rockwell Hall include an examination/documentation lab, dark room, copy stand room, x-ray room, and digital darkroom.
Department Library
Our specialized conservation library is home to over 4,000 conservation texts and was specifically designed to be a quiet respite for our graduate students and faculty. The department's extensive library is supplemented by collections in the E. H. Butler Library.
F. Christopher Tahk Conservation Science Labs
Our science labs complement all of our conservation specialties with up-to-date equipment for materials analysis and research.
Objects Conservation Studios
The department has two generously-sized objects conservation studios equipped with both modern and traditional tools and equipment. These labs are complemented by our woodworking and metals shop.
Paper Conservation Studios
Our paper lab features state-of-the-art equipment, lighting, and conservation instrumentation designed specifically for graduate paper conservation students. The paper lab suite also houses separate lab spaces for both photo and book conservation.
The Sheldon and Caroline Keck Paintings Conservation Studio and the Todd W. and Kimberley S. Brason Painting Conservation Studio
We have two paintings conservation studios with ample room to conserve a variety of paintings, large and small, in addition to a large collection of pigments used by to create period appropriate media.