A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 Edited by Laura Muir

Edited by Laura Muir

May 19–August 12

Kate Smith is the Straus Center’s Associate Conservator of Paintings

New England Museum Association

Most of the intricately designed book covers

A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 Edited by Laura MuirPublished in 2010 Harvard Universitys Fogg Museum was the rst American museum with a scientically based conservation and research department. During a period of immense growth of collections in the United States, director Edward W. Forbes and associate director Paul J. Sachs developed the Fogg into a vital training ground for a new breed of museum professional attuned to the materials of art and the eects of environment. A Laboratory for Art is the