The Hopewell Museum's Textile Collection - a curatorial perspective
Tue, Apr 29
|MC Library - Hopewell Branch or Zoom
Wendy Jessup is a well-known textile preservationist who has spent months helping the Hopewell Museum with its collection. What a cool job! Click RSVP to register for Zoom Only To attend In Person at the MC Library, Hopewell Branch, click the register link in "about the event", below.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
MC Library - Hopewell Branch or Zoom, 245 Pennington - Titusville Rd, Pennington, NJ 08534, USA
About the event
This event is free to the public, but registration is required.
Register to attend in person HERE
Register to attend by zoom by clicking the green RSVP button, above.
Established in 1922, The Hopewell Museum preserves and protects many objects that tell the story of the Hopewell Valley and its residents. To continue the Museum's mission, The Hopewell Museum recently retained preventive conservator Wendy Jessup to plan and implement the recovery of the museum’s vast garment and textile collection.
On April 29 at the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library, Wendy will present an illustrated lecture about the project and the importance of community involvement in the stewardship of shared resources. To learn about Wendy, click on the "Show More" link.
About the Speaker: Wendy Jessup celebrated her fiftieth year as a museum professional in 2024. She began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by several years at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in 1983, she joined the administration of the newly completed Museum Support Center (MSC) of the Smithsonian and was involved in all aspects of operation of a complex collections storage and research facility, including pest management and environmental monitoring and management. During her tenure at the MSC, Wendy developed one of the first IPM programs for a museum facility. Since establishing her private practice in 1989, Wendy Jessup & Associates, to provide preventive conservation services, she has consulted to a large number of museums, archives, and historic sites within the United States and internationally.
A Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation and Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation, Wendy is highly experienced in identifying vulnerabilities and risks to collections and in setting objectives for risk reduction, collections accountability, and preventive conservation. She served on the course development and instruction teams for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Preventive Conservation, Museum Collections and their Environments (1989-1994) and Preserving Collections in the Age of Sustainability (2016-2018), part of the GCI’s Managing Collections Environment initiative. Much of her recent practice focuses on collaborative development of facilities for long-term preservation of cultural heritage resources, balancing the needs of collections, the buildings in which they are housed, and the stewards who care for and use them.
This program is co-sponsored by the Hopewell Valley Historical Society, The Hopewell Museum, and the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library. The Presentation will be held at the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library on Tuesday, April 29th, at 7:00 PM. Click here for directions.