Conservation Lab

• The Asian Painting Conservation Laboratory at UMMA
• The care and conservation of East Asian paintings
• The care and conservation of works of art on paper
• An introduction to Kewei Wang, Conservator
• How to request conservation and mounting services
• Contacting the Asian Conservation Laboratory at UMMA

The Asian Painting Conservation Laboratory at UMMA

The Asian Painting Conservation Lab is among the great resources at UMMA, one not found in any other university art museum in North America, nor indeed at any other art museum between Washington, D.C. and the West Coast.

The lab was founded in 1987 with a grant from the C.V. Starr Foundation, through the efforts of Marshall P.S. Wu, then Senior Curator of Asian Art. From the outset, the mission of the lab has been to serve as an integral part of the teaching and research functions of the Museum, which it does through welcoming students and interns; and to offer conservation services to the broader public as well as handling internal needs—the care of nearly four hundred Chinese and Japanese paintings and over seven thousand prints and drawings in the Museum’s collection.

Conservator Kewei Wang, a graduate of the Conservation Training Program at the National Palace Museum in Beijing, China, has over twenty years of experience in repairing and mounting Asian paintings, as well as conserving Western prints and drawings.