Follow Senior Textile Conservator Susana Fajardo as she works on the dress worn by Sandie Shaw for her performance of ‘Puppet on a String’ at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. Sound designer and performance-maker Julie Rose Bower has documented Susana...

Take an in-depth look at the conservation processes involved in getting a crocodile mummy ready for display for the first time in 75 years.

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story.

To ready Paula Modersohn-Becker's "Self Portrait" (1907) for viewing, conservator Diana Hartman tackles the question of how to repair holes in the painting’s canvas.

A short documentary from 2013 that gives an insight into the conservation of Marie-Antoinette's commode at the Wallace Collection, London. The conservation was part of the Riesener Project, an ongoing collaboration with curators and conservators from the...

An ironwork cross almost 3m high was the uppermost feature of a magnificent screen in Salisbury Cathedral, designed by G G Scott and made by Francis Skidmore, erected in about 1870.

What is art conservation? Who does it and how does it work? Take a behind-the-scenes look inside the Art Conservation department at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and meet the team of trained conservators who specialize in the treatment of objects, p...

The Portico de la Gloria is one of the most remarkable monuments of Romanesque art. It is intricately carved with biblical scenes, interspersed with prophets, saints and angels.

Made in 1904 by Hibbert C. Binney, the magnificent trumpet-playing angel statue, known as the Spirit of Gaiety, once stood atop the Gaiety Theatre in London's west-end, at the junction of Aldwych and the Strand.

This fragile silk costume was once worn on the West End stage by Julie Andrews in her role as Eliza Doolittle – star of the classic musical My Fair Lady.

Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's greatest artists and thinkers. Only about 15 of his paintings are known to exist and one was thought to be lost forever.

Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge o...

Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restor...