With over 20 years of experience as an objects conservator and collections care specialist, Catherine Hayes has the expertise to perform inventories, surveys, assessments, documentation of historic collections, conservation treatments, development of collections policies, guidelines and procedures, object transportation, and storage planning, improvement, and packing. She has devised shipping crates for ship models, created mounts and containers for a historic basket collection, and conducted complex repairs of ceramics, ship models, glass, polychromes and other object types common within mixed museum collections. Throughout her career she has performed hands on treatment and managerial oversight on numerous public art sculptures (both big and small).