What reminds you of home? Perhaps a favorite photograph, a child's artwork, a miniature pair of ruby slippers like Dorothy's in the Wizard of Oz. Each conveys a powerful message.
University of Delaware researchers are helping to preserve the treasures of our heritage, those things we value and pass down to the next generation of the world family. In the pages ahead, we meet an archaeologist working to unearth an ancient port city in Egypt, a linguist on a quest to save a dying language in Uganda, and conservators helping partners around the globe to preserve prized heirlooms and artwork.
Faculty and graduate students of the Winterthur/ University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation have helped to preserve these priceless treasures and more. . . .
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Star-Spangled Banner
Treaty of Paris
Dead Sea Scrolls
Painting Restoration
Paintings by "Old Masters" to contemporary artists, from Rembrandt to Van Gogh and Wyeth
Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
Babe Ruth's baseball contract
R2D2 from Star Wars
World's first photograph
Elvis Presley's 81 gold records
1905 Wright Flyer III
Ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz
Architectural interiors of Mount Vernon and the Forbidden City