Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting stories on issues impacting the collection, preservation, and presentation of museum and archival collections.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.

Our conservator invites cultural heritage disaster responders from federal agencies to a discussion on serving on detail with FEMA’s Heritage Emergency National Task Force.

See how one collection of field books yielded a variety of challenges and treatments for the Archives’ conservators.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.

Conservation training occurs around the world on a regular basis—have a peek at one of our conservators learning traditional Japanese conservation techniques to help inform modern approaches to paper conservation.

Take a look at this new preservation solution for scrapbooks that are from Elizabeth C. Reed, wife of National Zoological Park’s (NZP) Director Theodore H. Reed.

Even in the most modern of archives, some spooky things lurk right under our noses. Enjoy a poem that sings their praises…or does it?