{"id":4355,"date":"2011-09-08T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2011\/09\/new-mexico-state-university-museum-conservation-program\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:43:00","slug":"new-mexico-state-university-museum-conservation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/09\/08\/new-mexico-state-university-museum-conservation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico State University Museum Conservation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Welcome to Las Cruces, New Mexico!<\/span><\/span> <\/span>I recently gradu<\/span><\/span>ated from the Museum Conservation Program at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/span> <\/span>I am so grateful to have had the experience the program offers and am happy to have the <\/span><\/span>opportunity to present the program to other emerging conservators.
Basically, the program\u2019s requirements are the sa<\/span>me as<\/span> conservation graduate school requirements. Some of the classes can be taken as graduate level classes, but the program is primarily an undergraduate program. <\/span>Silvia Marinas, the Head of the Museum Conservation Department and a private Conservator herself, eng<\/span>ineered the program to fulfill a<\/span>ll of the graduate school requirements. <\/span>This means that you take Art History, Studio Art, Archaeology, Entomology, Museum Studies and Chemistry. <\/span>In add<\/span>ition, there are four core classes. <\/span>One of the classes teaches the basics of Collections Care & Management, skills that you later put into practice in an internship with th<\/span>e New Mexico State<\/span> University Museum. <\/span>In two other classes, titled Museum Conservation Techniq<\/span>ues, you learn the basic restoration techniques for ceramics, pain<\/span>tings on canvas and paintings on metal. <\/span>T<\/span>hen you put those skills to w<\/span>ork on other, real, objects in an Internship class <\/span>with Silvia Marinas.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>Overall, the program is structured to be useful in real life.<\/span> <\/span>The format in which Silvia Marinas teaches the classes is particularly useful, because she has us create materials that will be useful for us in the future.<\/span> <\/span>For instance, from her Collections Care class I have a binder with information on things such as temperature & humidity guidelines<\/span><\/span>, handling, storage, etc., for each kind of museum object. <\/span>From her Museum Conservation Tec<\/span>hniques classes I have condition reports that I cr<\/span>eated of various types of objects that I can and have referenced when working on similar objects. <\/span>And overall, the program is structured to fulfill <\/span>the requirements for graduate schools and Pre-grad internships, so students are well prepared to appl<\/span><\/span>y to these places.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reconstructed Ceramic Vessel from Museum Conservation Techniques Class<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>T<\/span>he best part of Las Cruces is the people.<\/span> <\/span>Las <\/span><\/span>Cruces is primarily a college town but the professors make every effort to let us know what exhibit<\/span>ions, shows or lectures we should attend.<\/span> <\/span>There are many cultural events related to the strong Hispanic & American Indian heritage in the area, such as American Indian Week (pictured).<\/span> <\/span>The community is tight-knit and friendly. <\/span> <\/span>There are farmers\u2019 markets, gallery walks and museumsto explore as well as hiking and outdoor recreation (Las Cruces gets over 350 days of sunshine a year) and great Mexican food. <\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>I would be happy to try and answer questions for other emerging conservators!<\/span> <\/span>Here is the link to the Program\u2019s website: <\/span>http:\/\/artdepartment.nmsu.edu\/programs\/museumcons\/index.php?go=home.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of Las Cruces’ Beautiful Sunsets Welcome to Las Cruces, New Mexico! I recently graduated from the Museum Conservation Program at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I am so grateful to have had the experience the program offers and am happy to have the opportunity to present the program to other … Continue reading “New Mexico State University Museum Conservation Program”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}