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Double Duty: How a historic botanical garden reached a balance in managing its plant and art collections

By Jordyn Melino and Julianna Razryadov

All museums face many challenges maintaining and displaying their collections. But these challenges are exacerbated when collections of vastly different needs and care protocols share the same display space. At Phipps Conservatory and …

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