Jane Maupin Bynon

Jane has more than 20 years’ experience working as a conservator for government organizations, museums, historic house museums and private collectors in England, Wales and the United States. Jane currently serves as an expert for the AIC Connecting to Collections Care Community in her special interest topic of metals conservation and archaeological artifacts. Jane’s interest in archaeological artifacts originates from a foundational belief that an object’s unique combination of materials, technology, context and state of preservation allows a direct insight into the mind of the human that created it.

Jane began her career as conservation project manager and chief conservator for English Heritage’s Werhner Collection now displayed at Ranger’s House in Greenwich Park, England. She later carried out individual treatments for the Museum of London and worked on a team of conservators to uncover two overlapping decorative and figurative wall paintings hidden by decades of overpaint at The Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Upon moving back to the United States Jane was recruited to help assess and treat objects at The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN. She later served as Collections Conservator at Vizcaya Museum in Miami where Jane managed conservation projects, assisted in grant writing, wrote conservation guidelines for the collection, carried out treatments and advised on all conservation related activities for the historic house museum.

Over the course of her career, Jane has gained broad experience in working with a wide range of materials comprising decorative arts, social history and archaeological artifacts from both marine and terrestrial environments. In 2008, Jane Co-founded Bynon Art Services with colleague Mark Bynon.

Jane Maupin Bynon earned a BA in Anthropology and Archaeology from Brandeis University in 1990. She received her MA in the Conservation of Historic Objects from the University of Durham in Durham England in 1999. Her final year internship was in the Archaeological Conservation labs at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff. Jane is a Professional Associate member of AIC.