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Articles for author Meghan McFarlane: 5

  • Welcome Julie!

    Posted 05/13/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
    We're pleased to welcome Julie Parker to the Conservation Department!  Julie is the Save America's Treasures Conservator.  For the next year, she will be stabilizing artifacts from our Anthropology Department in preparation for their move into the new Rocky Mountain Science Collecti…
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  • Mission Impossible: Conservation-style

    Posted 04/07/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
    Have you always wanted to be a secret agent & a conservator?  If so, check out this great interactive website from National Museums Liverpool where you can review real science related to museum artifacts and guess the culprit behind the damage you see:   Agents of Deteriora…
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  • A Tale of Two Shoes

    Posted 04/06/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
    DMNS aims to preserve excellent examples of our natural and cultural world.  What you may not know, however, is that we also preserve artifacts pertaining to our museum's history.  Among the artifacts in our Archives Department are the original mailbox for the Colorado Museum of…
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  • Real Pirates need Conservators too

    Posted 03/04/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
    For the last week, Conservation, Registration, and Exhibits have been busy installing Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah.  This travelling exhibit features over 300 objects--each of which is checked by a Conservator before it goes on display.  We check for any signs of new …
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  • Preparing a fossil leaf slab for loan

    Posted 02/16/2011 by Meghan McFarlane | Comments
    DMNS has a really nice collection of fossil leaves--so nice, in fact, that occasionally other museums borrow our specimens for their own exhibits.  This week, Jessica Fletcher examined and documented the condition of a large slab of fossil leaves that was collected in the Hell Creek Forma…
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