Welcome to MACC
The Midwest Art Conservation Center is a non-profit regional center for the preservation and conservation of art and artifacts providing treatment, education, and training for museums, historical societies, libraries, other cultural institutions as well as public and private clients.
The Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works governs the methodology and standards behind all elements of MACC’s treatments and programming.
Professional conservation treatment services include:
- Paintings
- Murals
- Western and Asian works on paper
- Textiles
- Furniture and decorative arts
- Frames
- Objects
- Indoor and outdoor sculpture
- Ethnographic artifacts
- Historic artifacts
Additionally, general conservation and preservation services include:
- Environmental assessments, collections surveys, and storage analysis
- Training workshops and mentoring
- Technical information
- Loans of environmental monitoring equipment
- Emergency response planning
- 24-hour emergency disaster response
- Grant writing assistance for conservation projects