Materials Working Group Meeting

About the Meeting

The Materials Working Group meets annually to bring together volunteers that have worked on our projects over the years. The meeting alternates between onsite and online meetings with onsite meetings generally in the fall of even years. 

2024 Meeting

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Our goal is to build freely available online content. You can read more about the goals for each of our subcommittees, past meetings of our group, and our group's mission and overall activities on our wiki page.

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The Materials Selection & Specification Working Group held their 8th Annual Meeting at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, November 21-22, 2024. 

The meeting followed a similar structure of previous meetings to include collaboration, updates on subcommittee work, and breakout sessions for developing content to help choose appropriate materials for use with cultural heritage collections. The program covered 2 full days of content. The meeting focused on specific task-based subcommittee work related to Materials Testing, Analytical Instrumentation, Exhibition Guidelines, Materials Fact Sheets on CAMEO , outreach resources, and more.  

Attendance for the meeting was limited and pre-registration was required. Group members were asked to extend the invitation to any and all exhibit designers, fabricators, and other colleagues at their institution or with whom they regularly work and participants were expected to participate in resource development. 

Our Meeting Sponsors

Many thanks to Click Netherfield  for sponsoring the 2024 meeting and to MoMA  for providing in-kind support. If you're interested in connecting with our group about your company's products or services, email meetings@culturalheritage.org.

About Our Group

We formed in 2018 as a community of collection care, conservation, natural and applied science, as well as allied professionals united in developing guidelines and best practices for selecting, evaluating, and disseminating materials used in collection care. 

2021 AIC Annual Meeting Presentation

Learn more about our current projects and understand how our group works by watching this presentation from AIC's 2021 Annual Meeting .

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2018 Meeting Newsletter Article

Read more about our first meeting February 2018, which was sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Collections Program, Museum Conservation Institute and National Museum of Natural History. 

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2018 Meeting Participant List

See who participated in the first meeting of the working group on this wiki page.

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