Smithsonian
Museum Conservation Institute

The Smithsonian Institution is pleased to announce that the Smithsonian
Center for Materials Research and Education will now be known as the Museum
Conservation Institute.

The Museum Conservation Institute was founded in 1963 as the Conservation
Research Laboratory of the United States National Museum. A year later it
became the Conservation Analytical Laboratory (CAL), a name it retained for
almost 25 years. It was renamed SCMRE in 1998 when its new mandate was to
formulate and conduct training and education programs in conservation.  

The Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) better reflects our new mission: to
become the center for specialized technical collections research and
conservation for all Smithsonian museums and collections. We will use the
acronym MCI to parallel the names of our peer organizations, the Getty
Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI).

For further information contact Robert Koestler, Director, Museum
Conservation Institute at 301-238-1240 or [log in to unmask]

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