Online Faculty

Mary Coughlin
Professor Coughlin has an interest in the conservation challenges of contemporary museum collections, particularly with respect to plastic. Before coming to GW full time, she worked for five years in the Objects Conservation Laboratory of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where she conserved objects as diverse as FDR’s leg braces and Star War’s C-3PO and R2-D2. Read More
Tessa Lummis
Senior Collections Manager at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art; Museum Registrar, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.Read More