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East Asian Art Storage Project

This multi-phase effort provided a safe and effective storage area with new conservation grade storage units and the rehousing of some 4,000 objects.

Ormerod Bedcover

One of the Museum's most significant printed textiles, a bedcover printed by George Ormerod, was extremely fragile and arrived at the Museum with numerous losses.

Rodin’s The Thinker

After being displayed outdoors in an urban-industrial environment for over 60 years, Philadelphia’s version of Rodin’s The Thinker showed the effects of "acid rain" and particulate deposition common in such atmospheres.

Luca Signorelli's Head of a Boy

Long thought to be a fragment cut from a larger work, examination has shown that this painting was in fact originally made on a small, hastily prepared scrap of wood.

Conserving a Tibetan Altar

The goals of this project were to reveal the brilliant colors and artistry beneath the accumulated soot of a Tibetan altar, as well as reconstruct the altar, create a structural support, and explore both the altar's age and the artisans’ materials and techniques.

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