Collection Studies Center Open House

A group gathered in a semicircle around a round picture frame that rests flat on a high base. One person gestures toward the object and appears to speak. — Irma Passeri, the Susan Morse Hilles Chief Conservator, with student Gallery Guides in the Shared Conservation Lab, Yale West Campus

Students, faculty, and Yale staff are invited to discover the extraordinary resources at Yale’s Collection Studies Center. Join us at West Campus for an exciting range of drop-in visits, tours, and study sessions with scientists, conservators, curators, and other museum-collection experts. Co-presented by the Yale University Art Gallery’s Hume Furniture Study and Wurtele Study Center, the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, and the Yale Peabody Museum.

Free round-trip shuttle service is available from the bus stop at Phelps Gate on College Street, every half hour starting at 12:30 pm. GPS address: 900 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Conn. 06516; free parking on-site.

For more information, call 203.432.0632 or email yuag.furniturestudy@yale.edu. For a detailed schedule of tours and sessions, visit the website of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.