Getty Conservation Institute (GCI)

Ksours and Kasbahs

One of Africa’s most important sites of earthen architecture is the focus of an international conservation project.

Benjamin Marcus | August 7, 2014

Santa Ana winds are no match for these high-tech frames.

Anna Zagorski | April 30, 2014

Conservation scientists are working with L.A. artists to conserve their delicate sculpture.

Anna Zagorski | April 3, 2014

“It was time to do something.” Jackson Pollock’s Mural, conserved.

Melissa Abraham | March 6, 2014

Conservation science never sleeps! And sometimes conservation scientists don’t either. What is it like to run experiments during the graveyard shift?

In a joint Yale-Getty program, conservators learn to harness physics to analyze art.

Lynn Lee | December 9, 2013

What does it take to preserve an entire ancient Roman structure?

The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.

Anna Zagorski | November 13, 2013

Conservators make an intriguing finding about the wood in the Eames House.

Arlen Heginbotham | October 2, 2013

This new digital publication offers science-based tools to identify how photographs were made.

Melissa Abraham | September 19, 2013

Training a new generation of museum professionals.

Natali De Corso | September 16, 2013

Featuring over 300 Roman and Byzantine mosaics, Bulla Regia in Tunisia is serving as an outdoor lab for mosaics conservation and training.

Natali De Corso | August 28, 2013