MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC

Hundreds of museums, historical societies and libraries rely on The Midwest Art Conservation Center’s dedication to the preservation of their cultural collections. MACC provides expert conservation treatments and preventive measures to best care and house this region’s collections.

Mission Statement:

The Midwest Art Conservation Center is a non-profit regional center for the preservation and conservation of art and artifacts providing treatment, education, and training for museums, historical societies, libraries, other cultural institutions and the public.

MACC’s skilled conservators work with the Twin Cities' largest art museums and also travel across region reaching large and small museums, historical societies, tribal collections, libraries and archives. They perform conservation treatments, conduct general collection surveys, furnish designs for storage and exhibition methods, test for safe light levels, humidity controls, security protocols, and provide essential trainings and workshops for institution’s staff and volunteers. Aside from travel and on-site trainings, the MACC staff answers thousands of collections care inquiries by email and phone each year. The volunteers, boards and staffs of hundreds of small to mid-sized institutions rely heavily on this guidance and assistance from MACC. Many of these are the organizations and collections most in need and with the fewest resources.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recognizes that MACC’s programming is vital for the protection and access of this region’s art, artifacts and history. Contributions are eligible for a 1:1 match from the NEH.