Alex Brooks Conservation

For everyone asking about how to help:
And thank you so much for everyone who’s already helped.

Thank you to all who have volunteered your time and energy this past week. We could not have emptied the archive so quickly and prepped the materials for restoration without you. In the coming weeks and months, we will need more hands to help with this process!

Please sign up at appalshop.org/volunteer and let us know if you're willing and able to help us through the long road ahead.

💚🙏

📸 Roger May

The Smithsonian used Kickstarter to raise $500,000 to conserve Neil Armstrong's spacesuit. Much of this money won't really go to physical conservation (it will also be used for outreach, education, publicity - arguably aspects of conservation), and they're shooting for even more - the new goal is $700,000. The Smithsonian's annual budget is 851 million, so it's a small amount for such a large institution. And most of the kickstarter funds came from donations of $100 or less.

I have mixed emotions about the scheme, but it's still a cool and interesting project. And I'm glad they're taking care of our young nation's cultural heritage.

Smithsonian’s Giant Leap Into Kickstarter Pays Off Millions of Americans gathered around small black and white television sets in the hot July of 1969, to watch Neil Armstrong step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft..

Really amazing conservation story from Japan's 2011 Tsunami

How Ricoh Returned 90,000 Photos to Victims of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan When Japan was devastated by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011, countless families lost precious photos in their homes that washed away. In respons

Altered Books - The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning With Wendy Currier Zumwalt. Come start an altered book, a used hardback book that is repurposed …