Report from Rose Daly, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt.
Rose Daly reduces some of the linseed oil that has migrated onto the back of a painted wood rounding board from the 1902 Dentzel Carousel at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt. Photo courtesy of Shelburne Museum.
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3:25 p.m., Aug. 21, 2009----I have an eight-week internship this summer at Shelburne Museum in Vermont. The museum's collection was compiled by Electra Havemeyer Webb and contains over 150,000 works in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds from New England and New York.

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My internship focuses on preventive conservation, working with director of conservation Rick Kerschner monitoring the environment of the numerous buildings on the grounds.

I'm assisting object conservator Nancie Ravenel and the collections management department in a survey of the hanging costume collection and writing a budget to re-house the collection. I'm also treating a painted wood rounding board from the 1902 Dentzel Carousel using aqueous gels to remove darkened linseed oil from the surface.

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