Marian A. Kaminitz has served as the founding Head of Conservation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian since 1991. She was an Adjunct Professor of Conservation at NYU's Conservation Center from 1988-1998 and Assistant Conservator in the Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural History from 1985-1991. She was the first Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Pacific Regional Conservation Center, Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu from 1984-85, and interned in the Objects Conservation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY from 1983-84. A 1984 graduate of the Winterthur Museum/ University of Delaware Conservation program, she has lectured widely at all the programs and at national and international professional conferences.

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