In an April post entitled Rescuing film classics, I wrote about director Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, an organization dedicated to the preservation of cinema’s greatest treasures. This got me thinking about how we can preserve the treasures that we have in our own homes—things like photographs, books, old letters, and original artwork.

With help from the good folks at the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, I pulled together some conservation tips that might help. Read the full story