Cultural Preservation & Restoration, Inc. (CPR) specializes in a wide range of conservation and museum services including conservation surveys and assessments, conservation treatment, stabilization, reconstruction, object analysis, restoration, mount making, and freeze-drying services.
Our conservation projects include archaeological artifacts, objects, sculptures, paintings, ethnographic materials, fine and decorative arts, historic cemeteries, historic military collections, natural history and anatomical collections, paintings and textiles.
CPR is certified as an Approved Small Business Enterprise by the New Jersey Commerce & Economic Growth Commission.
CPR supports and adheres to the Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). AIC is the national membership organization of conservation professional that advances the practice and promotes the importance of the preservation of cultural property. Our conservation professionals are all members of the AIC and our Principal Conservator has attained the distinction of Professional Associate within this organization.
Meet Gary McGowan, President & Principal Conservator
Gary McGowan is President and Principal Conservator of Cultural Preservation & Restoration. He holds a Master’s of Museum Studies with a concentration in Conservation from the State University of New York. Mr. McGowan has over 30 years of experience conserving a wide variety of materials including decorative and fine arts, archaeological and ethnographic materials and historic monuments. In addition, he has experience in disaster preparedness and recovery as well as providing material testing on a wide variety of materials. Mr. McGowan has attained the distinction of Professional Associate from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic works and is President Emeritus of the New York Regional Association of Conservation.
Meet Mary Alice Landis, Vice President
Mary Alice Landis is Vice President of Cultural Preservation & Restoration and serves as Contracting Officer and Manager of Business Operations. As part of her position, she is responsible for human resource management, cost proposals, contract administration, budget management, and the development and maintenance of conservation databases. Ms. Landis holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Seton Hall University and has completed doctoral level courses at Nova Southeastern University.