Online Resources

Explore our Digital Content

In addition to the many periodicals that we publish, we support a variety of online resources that help inform your work. From calculating the carbon footprint of your materials to doing a deep dive into website archives, we can connect you with what you need.

We host almost all of our publications and resource materials on our website and document libraries, but some resources require a collaborative online space or hands-on tools. Things like our wiki and carbon calculator are hosted in external locations to take advantage of things like Wordpress widgets or dedicated hosting, but they remain part of our suite of supported resources. Our member-only blog is now on this website, but you can also explore archives from 2008-2018. 

Contact Us

publications@culturalheritage.org

AIC Wiki

The wiki started as a place to host our conservation catalog series in a new collaborative environment, which gave specialty groups the ability to continually update and expand that information. It has grown since then to include Exhibit Conservation Guidelines, sections on imaging, health and safety, work practices, and materials testing.

Explore

Global Conservation Forum

The Global Conservation Forum is a discussion forum for thousands of conservators and collection care professionals around the world who use it to share information, events, job openings, and more. 

More

Climate and Carbon Footprint Tools

We support websites like STiCH and Climate Resilience Resources that help you assess risk from natural disasters, calculate the carbon footprint of your materials, and engage in a community focus on sustainability. 

More

Collection Care

Our Connecting to Collections Care program hosts a variety of resources, on-demand webinars and courses, and an online community. Its mission is to connect staff and volunteers at small and mid-sized collections with information to help them care for the items they steward.

More

Conservation OnLine

One of the field's oldest web-based resources, Conservation OnLine started as a distribution list in 1987, then grew into a hosted web presence in 1993. The current site is more of an archive of websites, distlists, publications, and resource pages. However, its search tool is a global search across all our platforms.

Visit

STASHc

STASHc presents the original content published in the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection’s 1992 publication Storage of Natural History Collections: Ideas and Practical Solutions as well as updates and new solutions submitted by museum, library and archive professionals.

Visit

Safety in the Arts

ACTS FACTS, the monthly newsletter of Arts, Crafts, and Theater Safety (ACTS), has been publishing issues since 1987, thanks to editor Monona Rossol. We host the archives of this newsletter. These issues are packed with interesting information, studies, news commentary and other items to inform your safety practices.

More

Oral History Project

The Oral History Project, established in 1975 under the leadership of Joyce Hill Stoner with the support of the foundation board, led to the creation of an archive of transcripts of interviews with conservators, conservation scientists, and related professionals. These documents now form an invaluable record on the history of the field.

Visit

ANAGPIC Papers

Through 2024, the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation (ANAGPIC) met annually to provide a venue for the presentation and exchange of graduate student work and research. Student papers and posters from 2002 through 2022 are hosted here.

Visit

TechFocus Workshops

The TechFocus workshop series is organized by AIC’s Electronic Media Group to provide detailed technical education in the preservation of media art: video art, film and slide art, software-based art, and 3-D printed art. Explore recordings from the series.

Visit

Textile Archives

Produced entirely by volunteers, the Textile Conservation Newsletter (TCN) was published by Canadian conservators between Fall 1981 and Spring 2000. AIC’s Textiles Specialty Group digitized the entire print run of the TCN for the wider conservation community.

Visit

Hermitage Photographic Conservation Initiative

A product of the 2010-2014 FAIC-Mellon Foundation initiative to train photograph conservators and preserve the photograph collections at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, this site provides background and shares the program training materials and resources with a wider international conservation community.

Visit

Advertise with Us

Reach more than 3,500 members and more than 15,000 monthly website visitors.

Download the Rate Card