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March 04, 2006
Tour of the Conservation Laboratories at Winterthur Museum
Date: Saturday, March 4 (snow date is March 11)
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cost:$15 for dues-paying members and their guests
$20 for non-members and their guests
Location: Winterthur is located on Kennett Pike (DE 52), five miles north of I-95 Exit 7 (Wilmington) and five miles south of US 1.
Join us for a private insider tour of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Conservation Laboratories led by Professor Debra Hess Norris, Chair of the Arts Conservation Department at the University of Delaware. We will meet some of the graduate students and faculty engaged in conservation science and preservation of archeological and ethnographic objects, furniture, and paintings.
One painting that is being conserved and restored at the laboratory is the 1892 portrait of Winnie Davis, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The portrait was hung above the mantle of his estate, Beauvoir. On August 29 thirty foot waves crashed over the highway separating Beauvoir from the Gulf destroying most of the estate and its contents. Students and faculty will show this and other works currently being treated. Their activities have recently been the subject of articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wilmington News Journal.
After the tour we will have reserved tables at the Winterthur Cafeteria in the Visitors Center for a la carte lunch. If you wish to visit the museum after lunch, tickets may be purchased there.
Directions to Winterthur can be found at http://www.winterthur.org/
Reservations are limited. Please register online at https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=5175&groupID=158
For more information, please contact Sid Hess at 610-388-2783 or sidhess@alum.mit.edu
Posted by at March 4, 2006 10:00 AM