In 2002 the Toledo Museum of Art applied for, and received a grant from the Bradley Foundation to restore the museum’s historic Opus 603 pipe organ made in 1926 by Ernest M. Skinner of the Skinner Organ Company. The restoration firm A. Thompson Allen Company was selected to restore the organ, which had fallen into disrepair after years of use in the museum’s Peristyle Theatre. Management of the restoration project was turned over to the museum’s first staff conservator, hired three months after renovation work began. The pipe organ and its treatment represented a new conservation experience. It provided the opportunity to learn about a unique and complex musical instrument and to explore another field of conservation heretofore unknown by the conservator. It was a collaborative effort on many fronts; not only between organ restoration and conservation professionals, but also between numerous museum staff departments, and outside contractors from the sheet metal, electrical, and plumbing trades.