WCG Member Meeting and Tour of the National Building Museum’s Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection

With Nancy Bateman, Director of Collections; Bryn Cooley, Collections Manager; and Katie Terrell, Cataloger, Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection

Please join us for tours and a lecture on the Preservation of the Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection at the National Building Museum. The collections department is currently working on a digitization and cataloging project for their Northwestern Terra Cotta collection of architectural drawings. Their team of collections managers and catalogers will provide tours of storage and will talk about the history of the terra cotta company and industry in America, provenance of the collection, digitization, cataloging and conservation findings, concerns and solutions.

This event is free for WCG members and $10 for non-members.

Please contact membership@washingtonconservationguild.org if you need to check your membership status.

2026/2027 WCG season memberships are $35 for professionals, $25 for renewing emerging professionals, and free to emerging professionals who are entering their first season as a WCG member.
Join or renew at www.washingtonconservationguild.org/membership.

For more information about this season’s meetings, please visit
https://washingtonconservationguild.org/meeting-schedule-2026-2027-season/