Past Exhibitions
Past exhibitions that included artifacts conserved by MTS:
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
February 6 - June 5 2016
This exhibit looks at the Arts and Crafts Movement through an exclusively Irish lens. MTS conserved an embroidery made by Lily Yeats.
Picturing Enlightenment: Tangka from the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
September 12 - December 7, 2014
This exhibit includes 18 Tibetan Tangkas that previously could not have been viewed due to their fragility.
The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
June 14, 2014 – January 04, 2015
This exhibit contains thousands of objects helping to tell the more than 200 year history of Shaker culture.
Five Years of Conservation Collaboration: Huaca Malena & Museum Textile Services
Inaugurated January 19, 2008
This exhibition, available in both English and Spanish, was created on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Ancient Peruvian Textiles Workshop.
Spanish version.
Captured in Clothes: the Abbot Family of Harvard
Harvard Historical Society, Harvard, MA
September 7, 2002 through January 30, 2003
This costume exhibition profiles three generations of a prominent Massachusetts family during the transition from the Gilded Age to the 1990s.
Harvard Quilts
Harvard Historical Society, Harvard, MA
June 2000 through December 2000
This virtual exhibition includes many of the quilts on display in the original show.
Threads of Time: 500 Years of Tapestries from the Blau Family
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
December 1999 through March 2000
The show contained 13 European and American tapestries from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Guest Curator Camille Myers Breeze was responsible for selection of tapestries for the show, researching and writing the catalog and informational signs, acting as liaison between the owner and museum, and giving a public lecture at the exhibit’s opening. A full-color catalog of this exhibition is available here.
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