Adirondack Experience

The Adirondack Museum will repair, stabilize, and restore 82 primarily landscape paintings from its collection back to their original state. Treatment of the painting collection is currently the institution's highest preservation priority, as identified in the museum's long-range preservation plan and will address flaking and cleaving paint, tears, poor overpainting, surface dirt, and yellowed varnish. The project will enable the museum to display the paintings at the museum, as well as facilitate their increased use for museum loans and scholarly research. Beneficiaries of the project include museum curatorial and conservation staff, as well as researchers, conservators, artists, on-site and online visitors, and the general public. The project is intended to serve as a template for implementing the systematic treatment of other museum collections identified in the museum's long-range preservation plan.