About me
Jane E. Klinger earned her Master of Fine Arts in Conservation in Florence, Italy at the Villa Schifanoia, Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts. She has held positions at Winterthur Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and the National Archives. Ms. Klinger served as the Chief Conservator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is now Special Advisor and Senior Research Conservator. Ms. Klinger has also worked in Belgium, Israel, and Italy, has taught basic paper conservation techniques in Bolivia, Brazil and Poland, and has served as part of the teaching staff of the Society of American Archivists Preservation Management Training Program. She has published articles and presented papers to various professional groups and universities in the United States and abroad. She was the keynote speaker at the Conservators’ Conference on the conservation of WWII materials in Warsaw, Poland (2018) and was a speaker and panelist at the Flair Symposium Ethical Challenges in Cultural Stewardship at the University of Texas, Austin (2019). She presented a lecture on the technical challenges of clandestine photography in the Łodz ghetto during a public symposium at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (2019). She spoke at the European Union meeting on cultural policies for a democratic Europe (2023). Ms. Klinger is currently an editor of and contributor to the soon to be published volume The Material Culture of Difficult Histories and a contributor to recently published Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use, and Care. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation, served on its board for a number of years, and the board of the Research and Technical Studies Specialty Group. She was President of the Washington Conservation Guild (2013 -2016). She is the President of the International Committee on Memorial and Human Rights Museums (IC-MEMOHRI).
