Jennifer Giaccai appointed conservation scientist at Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)

Jennifer Giaccai has been hired as Conservation Scientist at the
Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute. Previously Jennifer was
Conservation Scientist at the Walters Art where she was the first
scientist to work in the Division of Conservation and Technical
Research since 1937. Prior to working at the Walters, she was
Assistant Conservation Scientist in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery
of Art Technical Laboratory where she specialized in the examination
of East Asian painting materials. She has degrees in Materials
Science and Chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University and
Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her most recent
projects have included identifying the pigments used in Thai
paintings and studying nineteenth-century copper alloys used in
small bronze statues.


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