A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 It includes objects that range

It includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such well-known figures as Jacob Bodendeich

May 19–August 12

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A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 It includes objects that rangePublished in 2010 Harvard Universitys Fogg Museum was the rst American museum with a scientically based conservation and research department. During a period of immense growth of collections in the United States, director Edward W. Forbes and associate director Paul J. Sachs developed the Fogg into a vital training ground for a new breed of museum professional attuned to the materials of art and the eects of environment. A Laboratory for Art is the