University of Iowa

The University of Iowa’s Museum of Art will use its grant to conduct research on important components in 15th - 19th-century western papers, the results of which will allow conservators and other preservation specialists to make better-informed treatment and collections care decisions. The project will augment the William Barrow Laboratory’s pioneering 1974 analysis of 1,500 historical papers, but include certain analytical techniques not used or unavailable 30 years ago.