2024 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
evening
Nichols House Museum, 55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Admission:
Invitations are sent to members. Space is limited, RSVP is required.Our Annual Meeting will be a review of Museum highlights for Fiscal Year 2024 by the staff and members of the Board of Governors.
The Nichols House Museum invites current members to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting. The business meeting will be a review of Museum highlights for Fiscal Year 2024 by the staff and members of the Board of Governors. It will be followed by a talk by Alyssa Shirley, Collections Manager for the Nichols House Museum.
Conservation in Action! Agents of Deterioration at a Historic House Museum
Temperature, humidity, light, insects, dust: all of these everyday factors, known as agents of deterioration, have an outsized impact on the health of museum objects. Collections Manager Alyssa Shirley shares the ins and outs of daily preventive conservation techniques, why they’re important, and special challenges for historic house museums.