by Helen Rush | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
As well as our core work for the Museums Service, Conservation are often approached by members of the public to conserve, repair and transform precious heirlooms and personal possessions. Recently, one such object was an interesting discovery that had been stored away...
by Helen Rush | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
The relocation of the Norwich Castle Museum Egyptian collection began as a simple decant project to safe guard the objects during the Keep Project building works. The Egyptian gallery may in the end, be relatively unaffected by the Keep redevelopment. But building...
by Helen Rush | Jul 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
In May, the Conservation Department fulfilled a loan to Anglesey Abbey, a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire, historic home of Lord Fairhaven. Lady Fairhaven, Cara Leland Broughton, was a fashionable woman and after her death, several Louis Vuitton packing...
by Helen Rush | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Over the past couple of months, the Conservation and Collections Management teams have been busy decanting collections from the Castle Keep in readiness for the transformation of the space. A particular challenge, was the removal of Snap the Norwich dragon. The Castle...
by Helen Rush | Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
In December last year, just before heading off for Christmas break, it was announced that the Winfarthing pendant had been voted the Art Fund’s acquisition of the year. Voters had been invited to choose from a shortlist of 10 works of art and objects that the Art...
by Helen Rush | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hopefully, you will have had a chance to visit ‘The Paston Treasure: Riches of the known world’. This blockbuster exhibition was formed in partnership with the Centre for British Art in Yale Connecticut, who had their own Paston Treasure exhibition prior to ours,...
