Treatment Studies

Science Department

Two people look closely at a large painting mounted and placed in the middle of the room

Mural, 1943, Jackson Pollock. Oil and casein on canvas. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6. Reproduced with permission from the University of Iowa

Photo: Scott S. Warren

Advances in conservation practice are made by evaluating and improving existing treatment methods and materials: by better understanding their potential impact on the composition, structure, and properties of objects; and through development of new approaches to treatment. This area of work has become particularly important with the urgent need to improve sustainability.

Research investigations in the Getty Conservation Institute Science department often revolve around approaches to minimizing the effects of a treatment on the object, while optimizing the efficacy and controllability of the treatment itself and ensuring laboratory tests are relevant to actual treatment situations.

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