Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts will purchase a portable X-Ray Florescence (XRF) unit so 113 works of art in the museum’s photography collection can be properly treated.A small portion of the grant will be used to host a one-day symposium focused on XRF technology. Because it allows to the conservator to see damaged areas that are not visible to the naked eye, XRF has become an invaluable tool for collection care, treatment, and scholarship, especially with regard to photography collections.