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Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Winterthur, DE
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Rosie Grayburn

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

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Dr. Rosie Grayburn is the Head of the Scientific Research and Analysis lab at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Affiliated Associate Professor in the Winterthur/University of Delaware in Art Conservation, where she teaches conservation science and analytical methodologies to graduate fellows in art conservation. In her current role she facilitates research in a broad variety of materials. Her main areas of research are currently Victorian pigmented bookcloth, the optimization and study of treatments for silver and silverplate and the greening of organic solvents used in conservation practice. She is the founding co-chair of the Bibliotoxicology Working Group. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in Conservation Science at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Rosie holds a joint Ph.D. in Physics and Analytical Chemistry from Universiteit Gent and the University of Warwick.