Shelburne Museum’s Director of Preservation and Conservation, Rick Kerschner, was a featured speaker at a day-long event sponsored by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts and The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. earlier this month.
Kerschner was one of three leading experts speaking on the topic of creating stable environmental conditions for museums. Kerschner is recognized in the field for his work at Shelburne Museum where he started the Conservation Department 25 years ago and where he oversees the care of collections housed in 39 exhibition buildings, many of them historic. Located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain Valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds.
About the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts: Philadelphia based CCAHA is the largest non-profit conservation laboratory serving other non-profit cultural, educational, and research institutions, as well as private individuals and organizations, in the United States. Founded in 1977, CCAHA specializes in the treatment of works of art and historic artifacts on paper, photographs, and books, as well as works on parchment and papyrus, and provides state-of-the-art digital imaging services. For more information visit: www.ccaha.org
About The Wistar Institute: Founded in 1892 as the first institution of its kind devoted to medical research and training in the nation, the Institute has evolved from its beginnings as an anatomical teaching museum to its present-day status as an international leader in basic biomedical research. The Archives of The Wistar Institute were established to preserve the history of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, its role as the nation's oldest independent biomedical research institute, and of the Wistar family as related to The Institute.