Topics Related to Conservation

The QAR Lab is now open for tours! Conservator Elise shares the ways in which you can experience our lab and view artifacts.

  

As a fully equipped archaeological conservation lab, the QAR Lab is capable of treating artifacts from any number of archaeological sites, like the

My name is Brandon Eckert and I am an intern at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville, North Carolina.

While the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab is known for its treatment of artifacts recovered from Blackbeard’s infamous flagship, conservators sometimes work with objects from other North Car

Prior to coming to the QAR Lab as a research fellow, my experience with artifacts had been exclusively in a museum or repository setting. My knowledge of conservation was more in the context of maintenance where things already preserved, stored, or on display were temporarily pulled (for days or as much as a few months) for treatment in order to retain their condition.