AIC 53rd Annual Meeting

Margaret Breuker is the Branch Chief of Conservation, Construction, Strategic Planning and Training with the Historic Architecture, Conservation and Engineering Center for Region 1 in the National Park Service at the Department of the Interior. Margaret has over 25 years of experience working on decorative, archaeological, and utilitarian objects, historic museum interiors, monuments, and building environmental systems within the National Park Service's collection from Maine to Virginia. In addition, Margaret specializes in issues relating to collections management and sustainable museum climate control.

Margaret graduated from Columbia University with an MSc. in Historic Preservation in 1999, with an emphasis on monument and archaeological site preservation. She then became a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where she studied the biodeterioration of cultural materials and worked on multiple research projects, such as the study of biodegradation of Mayan ruins and fungal degradation of archaeological limestone tombs. She has been a member of the American Institute of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) since 1995 and a Fellow since 2020.