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Training session at Worcester Art Museum

Training at the Worcester Art Museum

Training at CHI

Interested in learning about the training we do at CHI?

See the Training page to learn about our regular imaging workshops where we demonstrate how to generate digital representations of cultural treasures.


Imaging Technology Pathways for Museum Professionals

21st Century Museum Professionals (21MP) Grant Program

IMLS Training at Harvard University

Training at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies of the Harvard Art Museums in May 2011

This project was funded in September 2010. The training series is ongoing but now closed to further applicants.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 21st Century Museum Professionals grant program, Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) is able to deliver 10 training sessions across the US on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). These sessions introduce both emerging and established museum professionals to state-of-the-art imaging technology through a series of workshops, reaching over 150 participants. The participatory workshops provide training in RTI and other new technologies based on digital photography. The project results in freely available tools and training materials for dissemination to the broader museum community.

More Details on This Project

This IMLS-sponsored training series is closed to further applicants, but you can read more about it.

Funding for This Project

CHI received $255,200 from the IMLS and developed the project with additional grants and donations from project partners.

Partners and Contributors

The two-year project has been supported by collaborators from industry, higher education, leading computer scientists, and the museum community.

Project partners include the members of the ANAGPIC consortium (the Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property) as follows:

Additional training sessions have been or are being held at the Smithsonian Institution, the Worcester Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

For the ANAGPIC members, participation was determined by each individual program; participation in one of the museum-based sessions was determined by an application process.

Photographs of RTI Training at NYU: 21st Century Museum Professionals Grant Program

In March 2011, the CHI team delivered a RTI training session at New York University, focusing on art conservation for graduate students and professionals. This program reached an audience that is key to RTI adoption in art conservation. Shot on location at the Conservation Center labs at Chang House at NYU, this image gallery represents various moments from that event.

Notes: Click on any individual photograph to see its caption. If your browser does not display these images, you can view them on Flickr.