MPM Collection Support Staff
Christine Del Re - Senior Conservator and Section Head of Conservation
delre@mpm.edu or 414-278-2780
Since January 1997, Christine Del Re has been the Senior Conservator and Section Head of Conservation at the Milwaukee Public Museum. She has over thirty years of experience in archaeological, ethnographic and natural history conservation having received a B.Sc. in Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London London, England in 1980. She has worked at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, N.C., the Mississippi River Museum in Memphis, TN, the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1982-87), and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1988-1994. She has been a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation since 1993.
From 1994-1997, Ms. Del Re operated a private conservation consulting business in Chicago. Her clients included museums, private collectors, and government agencies such as the Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Public Library, Adler Planetarium, Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
She has been Project Director for four of MPM's federally funded Institute of Museum and Library Services Conservation Grant Projects (1998, 2000, 2004 and 2009), has written MPM's Long-Range Collection Preservation Plan and works to implement its broad and varied recommendations.