All posts by Tina March

Tina March

Tina March is an assistant conservator of objects at the Brooklyn Museum where she has been since receiving her M.A. in Conservation from Buffalo State College in 2001. She has a B.A. in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware. Previous internships include The Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum and The National Museum of the American Indian.

Inner Cartonnage of Gautseshenu

Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital

Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be…

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Friday, April 29th, 2011
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Conservation, Egyptian Art

Q&A about the Conservation of objects for “To Live Forever”

“To Live Forever” is finally up at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and they have done an amazing job posting a wealth of information on…

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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Conservation

Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Continues

To recap previous blogs, the mummy of Demetrios is wrapped in linen, then the entire surface of the linen is painted with red lead. On…

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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Egyptian Art

Conservation Treatment of Demetrios Begins

I’m back from leave, and during the last several months we’ve been busily getting all of the objects ready for the “To Live Forever, Egyptian…

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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Conservation, Egyptian Art

Demetrios gets CT scanned

Photo by Adam Husted Sorry for the delay in this post, but it was a long process organizing the CT scans. When we unpacked Demetrios,…

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Friday, October 26th, 2007
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Conservation, Egyptian Art

Demetrios goes for a ride

While Marc was visiting us from the Getty to carry out XRF on our mummy Demetrios, we decided to give Marc a sample of the…

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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
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Conservation, Egyptian Art, On Loan

The Getty Visits Demetrios

On July 5, Marc Walton, a scientist with the Getty Conservation Institute came to examine one of our mummies, knows as Demetrios. He brought a…

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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
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Conservation, Egyptian Art, On Loan, Special Guests

Meet our mummy, Demetrios

       I would like to introduce you to Demetrios. Demetrios is a mummy in the Brooklyn Museum collection that will be traveling across the country…

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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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Conservation, Egyptian Art, On Loan

Being Green

Lisa is on vacation this week, so I’ll be updating the blog in her absence. We apologize to everyone who came out to see our…

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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
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American Art, Conservation
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