Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Art Conservation Database (ACD) being developed by the Museum of Fine Arts will combine detailed text and image records of works on paper, paintings, and three-dimensional art; comprehensive condition reports; and collection care records in one database system in conjunction with an advisory committee working in the field. The Museum of Fine Art Houston’s goal is to create a streamlined database, with standardized conservation and preservation vocabulary, for experts and novices within the conservation field as well as museum staff. After significant peer review and system tests of the ACD, the database will be available to other institutions as a model of how to create and integrate conservation data within a museum environment.