Cleaning Dirty Pages – The Power of the Smoke Sponge
By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archive Collections Manager Moray House School of Education has a long and often complicated …Continue reading →
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An ever-green collaboration: working with the University of St Andrews to identify arsenical bookbindings
In this post conservator Amy Baldwin talks about working with the University of St Andrews to help develop their new …Continue reading →
Read moreConserving calligraphy: preparing Esther Inglis’ manuscripts for digitisation
In this post book conservator Amy Baldwin talks about the conservation work undertaken on volumes appearing in the upcoming online …Continue reading →
Read moreSustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation …Continue reading →
Read moreBooks, Boxes and Bugs! A day in the life of a Collections Care Technician at the Centre for Research Collections
Welcome to our new Day in the Life Series! The Conservation and Collections Management team recently recruited three new members …Continue reading →
Read moreDocumenting I.C.28
Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for …Continue reading →
Read more“An epoch in history” – Charles Lyell in Nova Scotia 1842
We are delighted to welcome Tim Fedak – a Curator and Paleontologist based at Nova Scotia Museum – to our …Continue reading →
Read moreConsidering labels
The Cockburn Geological Museum at the Grant Institute holds an extensive collection of over 130,000 geological specimens that reflect the …Continue reading →
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 23rd : Christmas Cowboy
Celebrating Christmas 1904, this illustration from the Roslin Glass Slides collection shows an American cowboy riding a bucking bronco with […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 17th: Elk/Deer in the snow
A beautiful festive illustration of three elk or deer with large antlers foraging for food in the snow. This image […]
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