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    Fort Vancouver

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Conservation

Throughout the year, conservation projects are undertaken in an effort to preserve the objects in our museum collection. While some projects are done by staff and volunteers, more complex projects are done by professional conservators. Click on the links below to learn about five of the Fort's most recent conservation endeavors.

Chief Factor's House and McLoughlin House Furniture Cleaning

McLoughlin House Furniture Conservation

Textile Conservation Workshop

Conservation of Historic Photographs

Conservation of Marguerite McLoughlin's Sewing Cabinet

 
Cleaning textiles
Museum Technician Meagan Huff and Volunteer Nicole Huffman clean historic chenille embroidered dress fragments, made in the 1870s
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Did You Know?

Image of a ranger examining an excavation site

Due to its outstanding cultural resources on display and in situ, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is known as the premiere historical archaeology site in the Pacific Northwest. More...