Making the Middle East Gallery: Conserving the Objects

Category: Produced Film

Length: 04:43

https://www.youtube.com/embed/96rk_XPdEpU
Video Date 03/23/2018
Film Description Head Conservator, Lynn Grant, explains how Museum conservators work with objects before they go into the gallery. Each object must be carefully examined and given a unique treatment plan. Conservationist, Marci Jefcoat Burton, demonstrates her approach for stabilizing the Al 'Ubaid columns from Iraq.

Learn more about the Middle East Galleries at penn.museum/meg
Video Category Produced Film