{"id":22586,"date":"2024-12-04T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marinersmuseum.org\/?page_id=22586"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:52:02","slug":"conservation-science-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marinersmuseum.org\/conservation-science-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Science Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Integral to all disciplines of Cultural Heritage Conservation is Conservation Science. The research scientist working within the Batten Conservation Complex’s laboratories utilizes various scientific and analytic techniques to determine what materials make up the objects in the Museum’s Collection. Characterizing the materials present helps us preserve these objects and improves our historical understanding by providing insight into how they were made and used and how they have deteriorated over time. Researching current treatment methods, adapting methods to suit the needs of individual objects, and creating new techniques for treatment and stabilization are all pivotal to conservation. Scientific analyses have been conducted on many objects in the Collection, from analyzing a pocket knife to characterizing medicines from a historic medical chest. The Mariners’ research scientist also works on the Museum’s Living Collection, monitoring the health of Mariners’ Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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