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Saturday, June 22, 2019

News from the Conservation Lab — June 2019 – The Kelsey Blog


https://kelsey-museum.blog/2019/06/18/news-from-the-conservation-lab-june-2019/

News from the Conservation Lab — June 2019

By Suzanne Davis, Curator of Conservation

Most of the students and faculty have vacated Ann Arbor for the summer break, but it's always busy here in the Kelsey's conservation lab! This month we're hard at work on all kinds of things.

My main work this month is to finish a book and an exhibition with my colleague Geoff Emberling. Focused on ancient graffiti at the site where we work in Sudan (El-Kurru), these projects have been fun. We've learned a lot by working on the book, and the exhibition has been an interesting exercise in how to share the story of El-Kurru and its graffiti with people who will probably never travel there.

Many exhibitions can display objects from a far-away archaeological site to tell a story, but in our case, we can't transport the El-Kurru pyramid and funerary temple to Ann Arbor (although we can try to fake it). So it's been a big challenge not only for us but for Scott Meier and Eric Campbell, our Kelsey colleagues who are responsible for the exhibition design, installation, and graphics.

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Kelsey assistant exhibition designer Eric Campbell enhancing a photo of a graffito from El-Kurru for inclusion in the upcoming exhibition.
--   Sent from my Linux system.

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