Manu Frederickx is responsible for the conservation and technical study of the Musical Instruments collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He received a master’s degree in musical instrument making from the Royal Conservatory in Ghent in 2002 and has worked as an independent maker-restorer of harpsichords and plucked string instruments. Manu studied conservation of wooden artifacts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. From 2004 to 2015 he was a lecturer at University College Ghent’s School of Arts, where he became head of the Musical Instrument Making Department in 2013. He worked as a conservator at the Brussels Musical Instrument Museum from 2009 until joining The Met’s Department of Objects Conservation in 2015. He is currently conducting a PhD study on the construction of Antwerp virginals at Ghent University.