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Dana Melchar is a Senior Furniture Conservator at the Victoria & Albert Museum and tutor for the Conservation Department at City & Guilds of London Art School. She graduated with a Masters of Science in Art Conservation, with a specialisation in furniture, from the Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and trained as a cabinet and furniture maker at the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts. At the V&A, she works on many different types of furniture and 3-D organic objects carrying out both preventive and interventive conservation treatments as well as object-based research.