List of meeting locations of the Midwest Regional Conservation Guild

This is a list of Annual Meeting locations for the Midwest Regional Conservation Guild (MRCG), which has been in existence since 1980 but had its first meeting in 1981.

+ List of Annual Meeting locations for the MRCG Year Season City Location 1980 Fall Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art 1981 Spring Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1981 Fall Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts 1982 Spring Cincinnati Cincinnati Art Museum 1982 Fall Nashville Tennessee State Museum 1983 Spring Chicago Art Institute of Chicago 1983 Fall Bloomington Indiana University 1984 Spring Ann Arbor University of Michigan 1984 Fall Oberlin Intermuseum Conservation Association 1985 Spring Cincinnati Cincinnati Art Museum 1985 Fall Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art 1986 Spring Nashville Tennessee State Museum 1986 Fall Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1987 Spring Toledo Toledo Museum of Art 1987 Fall St. Louis Saint Louis Art Museum 1988 Spring Buffalo Buffalo State College 1988 Fall Chicago Art Institute of Chicago 1989 Spring Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art 1989 Fall Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1990 Spring Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts 1990 Fall Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1991 Spring Lexington Kentucky Horse Park 1991 Fall Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art 1992 Spring Nashville The Hermitage 1992 Fall Minneapolis Minneapolis Institute of Art 1993 Spring New Harmony New Harmony 1993 Fall Cincinnati Cincinnati Art Museum 1994 Spring Saint Louis Missouri Historical Society 1994 Fall Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh 1995 Spring Dearborn The Henry Ford 1995 Fall Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 1996 Spring Harrodsburg Pleasant Hill Shaker Village 1996 Fall Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art 1997 Spring Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1997 Fall Chicago Chicago Historical Museum 1998 Spring Bloomington Indiana University 1998 Fall New Harmony New Harmony 1999 Spring Columbus Columbus Museum of Art 1999 Fall Des Moines State of Iowa Historical Building 2000 Spring – – 2000 Fall Memphis Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel With pre-conference workshop sponsored by the MRCG: Digital Technology for Conservation, led by Tim Vitale. 2001 Fall – – 2002 Fall Nashville Frist Center for the Visual Arts Symposium co-sponsored by the MRCG and the Southeast Regional Conservation Association (SERCA) entitled "The Care of Contemporary Art: Who Decides?" 2003 Fall Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts With pre-conference workshop co sponsored by the MRCG, Chicago Area Conservation Guild, American Institute for Conservation, and the Detroit Institute of Arts entitled "Art in Transit." 2004 Fall Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art With pre-conference symposium sponsored by the MRCG entitled "The Latest Trends in Museum Storage." 2005 Fall Indianapolis Indianapolis Museum of Art 2006 Fall Cincinnati Cincinnati Art Museum 2007 Fall Chicago Chicago Historical Museum Followed by a workshop co-sponsored by the MRCG, American Institute for Conservation entitle "Mastering Fills." 2008 Fall Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2010 Spring Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts This meeting was the postponed 2009 meeting. 2010 Fall Louisville Filson Historical Society 2011 Fall Toledo Toledo Museum of Art 2012 Fall Bloomington Indiana University Art Museum 2013 Fall Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art 2014 Fall Minneapolis Midwest Art Conservation Center 2015 Fall Ann Arbor Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 2016 Fall Cooperstown Golden Artist Colors, The Otesaga Resort Hotel 2017 Fall Cincinnati Cincinnati Museum of Art 2018 Fall Saint Louis Saint Louis Art Museum 2019 Fall New Harmony New Harmony Inn Resort and Conference Center 2020 Fall-Winter Virtual co-hosted with the Chicago Area Conservation Group 2021 Fall Indianapolis Indiana State Library Pre-conference sessions: Portfolio Day coordinated by ECPN, and a Bruker XRF workshop taught by Nigel Kelly 2022 Fall Detroit Detroit Institute of Art: Detroit Film Theater Pre-conference session: Gels Workshop taught by Sophie Barbisan 2023 Fall Kansas City, MO National WWI Museum and Memorial Pre-conference session: Bruker (handheld Raman and FTIR), hosted at the University of Kansas Library conservation lab 2024 Fall Columbus Helen Haddad Hall In partnership with Exhibit Columbus

Pre-conference session: Hydrogels in Conservation Workshop taught by Matt Cushman, hosted at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University

External links Google Map showing locations of all meetings

References