Midwest Art Conservation Center Inc

Programs: Conservation services:bench treatment - encompasses all direct conservation and restoration treatments applied to works of art, artifacts, and historical items. Treatments prevent deterioration, insure original integrity and enhance exhibition and access to works of art, historical artifacts and documents. Several hundred works of art are conserved through treatment each year. Consultation - consists of on-going dialogues and provisions of written and photographic information to curators, librarians, archivists, collection managers and the general public regarding treatments, discoveries and practices associated with particular items. Conservator's examinations with diagnostics in conjunction with curatorial expertise lead to discoveries in dating, authenticity, structural and aesthetic techniques, shipping, handling and display techniques. Hundreds of institutions rely on macc's consultations each year.

preventive conservation:preventive conservation - consists of outreach programming providing cultural repositories with collection assessments, evaluations, mentorships, education, training, and emergency response services along with monitoring equipment for loans. Hundreds of collecting institutions' staff members throughout the midwest and beyond attend workshops and receive collections care instruction each year. Over 10,000 inquiries on collection related issues are handled each year. Public programming - includes tours, workshops and presentations to inform, teach and build appreciation for the importance and challenges of preserving the physical elements of cultural heritage. Macc holds regular tours of its facility and provides lectures on conservation for museums and other collecting institutions, and more recently, for high school audiences.