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The Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute〔(Museum Conservation Institute Fact Sheet )〕 (MCI) aims to be the center for specialized conservation and technical collection research for all of the Smithsonian museums〔(Smithsonian Institution Fact Sheet )〕 and collections.〔(Smithsonian Collections Fact Sheet )〕 MCI's staff combine state-of-the-art instrumentation and scientific techniques with the knowledge of materials and the history of technology to provide technical research studies and interpretation of art, as well as historical and anthropological objects, to improve the conservation and collections storage capabilities at the Smithsonian. For the majority of the Smithsonian collections, MCI is the only Smithsonian resource for technical studies and analyses. ==History== The Smithsonian's Board of Regents〔(Smithsonian Board of Regents Fact Sheet )〕 established the Conservation Research Laboratory of the United States National Museum in 1963 in response to a growing need to support conservation of the entire Institution's collections. In 1965 the name of the laboratory was changed to the Conservation Analytical Laboratory (CAL). In 1983, the laboratory moved to the Museum Support Center〔(Museum Support Center Fact Sheet )〕 in Suitland, Maryland. Congress mandated a national conservation training program among other wider responsibilities including an expanded conservation science research program. The Board of Regents approved a name change to the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education (SCMRE) in 1998. SCMRE's mission was to serve all museum communities - national and international, and provide professional training and education programs. In 2006 the Board of Regents approved the name change to the Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Museum Conservation Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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