Paul Schwartzbaum has had an extremely distinguished career in the conservation art and cultural property. Chief Conservator of the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museums, Chief Conservator of ICCROM, winner of the AGA KHAN Award, restoration of the Sistine Chapel, technical consultant for Frank Gehry's masterpiece in Bilbao. He is available for private consultations or projects.
Honors
With John Paul II on the occasion of the completion of the restoration of Michelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel.
1986, Marakesh, Morocco. Presentation of the AGA KHAN Award for Architure for the restoration of the fire damaged painted dome of the Al Aqsa Mosque Jerusalem. Paul Schwartzbaum, third from the left, with Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, and the Aga Khan.
Frank Gehry's thank you to Paul from his collaboration on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Receiving a Doctora Honoris Causa from the Cluj-Napoca University of Art and Design, 2011.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. My favorite interns at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
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Invited as a guest scholar to the Getty Conservation Center, April - June 2013
And Invited twice to the Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties as a guest scholar, November - December, 1983 & 1984