Barbara Appelbaum

Barbara Appelbaum and her firm, Appelbaum and Himmelstein, consult for museums and other collections-holding institutions in the United States and around the world. Based in New York, Appelbaum was trained at New York University and began her career as a conservator at the Brooklyn Museum. In addition to her museum-consulting activities, Appelbaum maintains an active conservation practice where she has worked on innumerable masterwork paintings and objects of all kinds. Projects of note have...See more

Barbara Appelbaum and her firm, Appelbaum and Himmelstein, consult for museums and other collections-holding institutions in the United States and around the world. Based in New York, Appelbaum was trained at New York University and began her career as a conservator at the Brooklyn Museum. In addition to her museum-consulting activities, Appelbaum maintains an active conservation practice where she has worked on innumerable masterwork paintings and objects of all kinds. Projects of note have included George Washington's leather portfolio, a Marcel Duchamp urinal, and a Marilyn Monroe dress. She is also the author of the ground-breaking text Conservation Treatment Methodology, which presents a unified approach to conservation treatment decision-making. See less