Public Engagement at the Conservation Research Laboratory
Author(s): Christopher Dostal
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Shipwrecks and the Public: Getting People Engaged with their Maritime History" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
At any given point, there are multiple large-scale archaeological conservation projects underway at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University from all over the United States or abroad. Because the artifacts being conserved are often hundreds or thousands of miles removed from the location they originated from, effective outreach both to the public and to the clients whose material is being conserved is a vital part of our mission. This paper will address the challenges we encounter with public outreach, the efficacy of the solutions we currently employ to meet our outreach goals, and our long-term goals to improve these methods and to incorporate new means of outreach.
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Public Engagement at the Conservation Research Laboratory. Christopher Dostal. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449223)
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Keywords
General
Conservation
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Outreach
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public
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historical Period
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 424