Wendy Jessup celebrated her fiftieth year as a museum professional in 2024. She began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by several years at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in 1983, she joined the administration of the newly completed Museum Support Center (MSC) of the Smithsonian and was involved in all aspects of operation of a complex collection's storage and research facility, including pest management and environmental monitoring and management. During her tenure at the MSC, Wendy developed one of the first IPM programs for a museum facility. Since establishing her private practice in 1989 to provide preventive conservation services, she has consulted to a large number of museums, archives, and historic sites within the United States and internationally. A Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation and Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation, Wendy is highly experienced in identifying vulnerabilities and risks to collections and in setting objectives for risk reduction, collections accountability, and preventive conservation. She served on the course development and instruction teams for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Preventive Conservation, Museum Collections and their Environments (1989-1994) and Preserving Collections in the Age of Sustainability (2016-2018), part of the GCI’s Managing Collections Environment initiative.  Much of her recent practice focuses on collaborative development of facilities for long-term preservation of cultural heritage resources, balancing the needs of collections, the buildings in which they are housed, and the stewards who care for and use them.