About me
Matthew Cushman is the George F. & Sibyl H. Fuller Conservator in Charge at the Worcester Art Museum. In addition to leading the Museum’s conservation department, Matthew oversees the care of WAM’s collection of approximately 1,750 paintings. As time allows, he provides consultation services and leads professional workshops internationally on the cleaning of paintings and other cultural heritage surfaces, with a particular focus on aqueous methods and hydrogel formulations.
Prior to joining the Worcester Art Museum, Matthew was the Conservator of Paintings at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, Delaware. While at Winterthur, he was (and remains) an Affiliated Assistant Professor at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), where he assisted and led the program’s paintings conservation major and served as the interim lead instructor for the program’s first-year science curriculum. Matthew holds a Master of Science in Art Conservation from WUDPAC and bachelors degrees with honors in Art Conservation and Chemistry from the University of Delaware.
