Inside the world of a Smithsonian art conservator | National Museum of Asian Art's Grace Jan

Grace Jan is a Chinese painting conservator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art where she cares for the museum’s Chinese painting and calligraphy collection. She invites our cameras into the conservation lab, where the meticulous work  Jan has spent time training and studying conservation in Beijing. She was part of a project with both Chinese and Western conservators at the Beijing Palace Museum to reinstall ceiling paintings. But the scale of the works proved to be a challenge.  "The Chinese painting conservators came up with this idea of unrolling it onto the ceiling like a hand scroll...so I think it was really interesting to hear them kind of dialog back and forth about the best way," Jan said. "In the end, they did kind of unroll these large paintings up onto the ceiling, and a paste was applied in a certain fashion that was actually suggested by the western conservator. And I loved that dialogue." Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile https://cgtnamerica.vhx.tv/videos/hd-live-broadcasts Subscribe to CGTN America on YouTube Follow CGTN America: Twitter: @cgtnamerica Facebook: @cgtnamerica Instagram: @cgtnamerica TikTok: @newstoks This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.