Jill Plitnikas

Jill Plitnikas earned a B.A. in Archaeology at the University of Toronto and a Master of Art Conservation (Artifacts) at Queen’s University. She is accredited under the Institute of Conservation’s Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers process, for which she also assessed candidates from 2007 to 2016.

Jill joined the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2017, after spending almost a decade working as an artifact conservator at National Museums Scotland, where she conserved objects from the global arts, culture and design collection and the Scottish history and archaeology collection. From 2005 to 2007, she was an antiquities conservator at Bristol Museums. Prior to 2005, she led a project on the conservation and care of the North American Indigenous collections at the Field Museum from 2003 to 2004. She also held postgraduate fellowships at the Textile Conservation Centre and the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute. After graduating from Queen’s University in 1999, Jill completed an internship in artifact conservation at the Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen.

Jill’s interests include working in partnership with communities on the conservation and care of their cultural heritage, repatriation and rematriation, residual pesticides, plastics, and conservation theory and ethics.