Theresa Voellinger presents “Preserving Our Heritage: Museum Conservation in the National Park Service” in Springdale
By Michael Plyler
The Zion National Park Forever Project will present “Preserving Our Heritage: Museum Conservation in the National Park Service” by Theresa Voellinger at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale June 20 at 7:30 p.m. This lecture is free and open to the public.
The National Park Service has vast cultural resources held within the museum collections of each park unit. All of these collections need constant and consistent care which is placed in the hands of various NPS museum professionals, including art conservators. Art conservators are part historian, part craftsperson, and part scientist, and are tasked with the preservation of these valuable collections. This talk will focus on the career of an art conservator within the NPS and will be a behind the scenes look at what goes into preserving our national treasures for exhibition and the future.
Theresa Voellinger completed a BFA in Studio Art at Binghamton University and then went on to pursue her Masters in Art Conservation at Buffalo State College. After interning in numerous institutions such as the George Eastman Museum, the Legion of Honor, and the Balboa Art Conservation Center she found her way to the National Park Service. She has spent 18 years as one of only two paper conservators in the NPS at Harpers Ferry Center working on museum collections service-wide before taking on a management role for conservation and museum collections there.
This lecture is part of the Zion National Park Forever Project’s programming celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the designation of Zion as a national park in 1919. This lecture complements the Zion National Park Human History exhibit, “Keepers of the Sanctuary: Zion’s First 100 Years.”
The Zion National Park Forever Project’s Fern and J. L. Crawford Lecture Series is a collaborative presentation of the Forever Project and the Division of Resource Management in Zion National Park. For more information please call (435) 772-3264. Lectures are free and open to the public. The Canyon Community Center is located at 126 Lion Blvd. in Springdale. The Zion National Park Forever Project is the official non-profit partner of Zion National Park.
