Conservation Clinic

As part of the museum’s and the university’s missions of public service, advice on condition, care, and possible treatment is offered without charge. Paintings, textiles, works of art on paper, books and archival documents, photographic materials, furniture and decorative, archaeological and ethnographic objects are welcomed with their caretakers for 30-minute appointments. Faculty and students share their knowledge about the care of works of art of all materials with collectors, curators, caretakers, or scholars of works of art or cultural property.

The clinic is held on Thursday afternoons at: Copeland Lecture Hall of the Winterthur Museum Pavilion Route 52 Greenville, DE 19807.  Appointments are required. Call: Janis Kraft at 302-888-4786

NOTE: Monetary appraisals and authentication of objects will not be given. There is a limit of three works per appointment.

2012/2013 dates (subject to change):
September 6 
October 11
November 15
December 6
March 14
April 18 
May 16