San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum

The Museum of Performance and Design will hire a conservator to perform a detailed conservation survey of its 286-piece costume collection, with the intention of establishing collections care priorities for these items. The survey will involve retrieving costumes from cold storage and delivering them to the museum, assessing the condition of each costume with photo documentation, writing condition reports, repacking the costumes, and sending them back to cold storage. The successful completion of this survey will advance the museum's mission to preserve material on performance and theater design. It will further lay the groundwork for the subsequent development of a conservation plan that will have long-term impact on the wellbeing of the collection.