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Collections Stewardship
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At the heart of New York City's Tenement Museum is an apartment building built in 1863. Though it housed thousands of new arrivals to this country over the course of seventy years, it wasn’t designed to accommodate the over 250,000 visitors that the museum now sees annually. This session will reveal how visitors are often unintentionally the main culprits behind deterioration of a building's historic surfaces. Explore ways to plan preservation projects and react to emergency conservation needs while limiting disruption to daily activities.
Danielle Swanson
Collections Manager
Tenement Museum