Conservation Cart Talk | What Can Light Reveal About Art?

Stop by our gallery cart to chat with conservation experts and explore how we preserve and research the museum's collections.
About this Event

Did you know you can use X-rays to study art? Join conservation scientist Matthew Clarke to discover how scientists use X-ray, infrared, and other forms of light to view works of art from a different perspective. See examples from Matthew’s research and learn how light-based tools help researchers uncover information not visible to the eye.

Registration optional.

Image: X-ray fluorescence reveals the areas (right) where gold appears in a 14th century Persian manuscript.

Object: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1930.78.