Hotel Indigo Conservation Update: 2025 Update

The team at the Conservation Research Lab (CRL) continue to treat the timbers with PEG 3350 and expect to complete the project in Spring 2027.
Page updated on April 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Conservation continues with ship timbers soaking in PEG 3350

April 2025

Conservation work on the Hotel Indigo Ship remnant continues at Texas A&M University’s Conservation Research Lab (CRL). The timbers are now soaking in PEG 3350 that will replace the water within the wood. They will then go into the freeze dryer.  After experiencing some unanticipated delays, the ship remnant is now expected to finish treatment and return to Alexandria in Spring 2027, a delay of about a year from previous estimates.

Wooden ship timbers sit partially submerged in a plastic-lined concrete tank.
Timbers soaking in PEG 3350 at the Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Lab (CRL)