About me
Holly Salmon is the John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where she has worked for over 20 years. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1997, her M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2001 and a certificate of Advanced Training in Objects Conservation from the Straus Center for Conservation, at the Harvard Art Museums in 2003. Her graduate internships included work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Harvard's Peabody Museum and the National Conservation Centre in Liverpool, England where she studied laser cleaning. After graduating, Holly received a Mellon Foundation fellowship at Historic New England and also a Luce Scholars Program fellowship to spend a year studying at the Kyoto Lacquer Restoration Institute. In addition to managing the Conservation department, Holly oversees the museum’s conservation capital projects, such as the recent restorations of the Titian Room and Gothic Room galleries.
