Category details
Categoryconservators
Alternative termsconservator, conservator's, conservators'
SourceArt & Architecture Thesaurus
Overview
People responsible for treatment, preventive care, and research directed toward the long-term safekeeping of cultural and natural heritage. For those engaged in making changes to an object or structure in order to prevent further deterioration, see "preservationists." For those who make changes to an object or structure so as to closely approximate its state at a specific time in its past, see "restorers."