The Monuments Men

Join us for a special Preservation Week book club with guest host Danielle Creech, Head of Preservation, Processing, and Exhibitions. We will discuss The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel.

In The Monuments Men, we follow a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, who risked their lives scouring Nazi-occupied Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world’s great art from the Nazis.

Book club will begin with a presentation on the importance of provenance and the struggle to protect its physical indicators during the conservation process.

Free and open to all, registration required for Zoom link.