Posted on 11/7/2023
The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, VA, USA, is home to the Batten Conservation Complex and the USS Monitor Center.
Within the Batten Conservation Complex, conservators specializing in archival documents, paper, objects, and archaeological materials work alongside a research scientist to stabilize and preserve the collection for generations to come. Researchers across the team continue to build the body of knowledge gleaned from the collection, uncovering the full stories that include...