Rebecca Newberry
Rebecca Newberry is the conservator at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Filling various conservation and collection management roles since 1994, she was named conservator in 2013. She oversees a mixed natural history and anthropology collection of approximately 1.75 million objects. Rebecca worked on the collections move project from 1998-1999 and is one of the authors of the Science Museum's Moving the Mountain: Guide to Moving Collections.
Rebecca specializes in preventive conservation, with an emphasis on exhibition, storage, and shipping mounts; environmental monitoring; Integrated Pest Management; and ethnographic conservation, focusing on culturally appropriate storage and preservation.
Rebecca is a member of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and the Midwest Regional Conservation Guild.