Read more about our expanded engagement in Africa to support local cultural institutions to provide expertise in the conservation of collections.

A recent collaboration between Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) and the University of Pretoria (UP).

We tested the captioning ability of 10 different vision-language models—models that can be prompted with both images and text and can output text.

Learn about the project to conserve a large peeling and cracked oil painting that hung in a public section of the University of Pretoria’s Library.

Explore an on-going collaboration and knowledge exchange with Alserkal, a leading cultural institution in Dubai. 

Revisit presentations and explore conversations hosted by the Lens Media Lab on August 12th in New Haven, Connecticut.