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The Conservation Analytical Laboratory, now the Museum Conservation Institute, is established to support museum curators in authenticity studies and the preservation of artifacts. The Laboratory specializes in two scientific pursuits: conservation science, which analyzes objects and their materials to determine suitable conservation treatment; and archaeometry, which aims to integrate scientific analysis of objects with their anthropological, archaeological, art historical, and cultural backgrounds. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_898.
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Saturday, January 1, 1966
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Dr. Robert M. Organ, Chief of the Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1967-1983. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder December 1974.