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Conservation: Installing Birds
July 2014 Time has ‘flown’ by since the Wonder of Birds exhibition was conceived four years ago. The Conservation department’s contribution began two years ago with assuring lenders that we can control our gallery environment within reasonable parameters, an important...
Make Way For the Boudoir Boots
May 2014 Made with quilted silk uppers and ostrich feather decoration, these delicate ankle length boots are a popular object on the Costume and Textile Collection guided tour. The boots have been recently conserved. As seen on the left hand image, the boots were...
Conservation and the Wonder of Hummingbirds
March 2014 With the Wonder of Birds exhibition due to open in May, work has begun preparing varied and fascinating natural history specimens for display. The exhibition has provided an opportunity for the conservation team to work closely with Natural History curator...
Gressenhall Workhouse Pre Season Housekeeping Work
February 2014 Over the winter period, when the museum is closed to the public, staff and volunteers are working hard to prepare all areas of the museum for the visitor season to come. A major focus of this work is the conservation cleaning of the collections on...
Conservation of a Feather Pelerine Cape
January 2014 This feather pelerine dated c.1825-35 will form part of the Wonder of Birds exhibition May24th – Sept 14th, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. The cape consists of bands of feathers stitched to a cotton backing fabric, the two lappets or extensions...
A Curious Challenge
December 2013 Conservation of Blaschka Glass Models In the current Norwich Castle exhibition “Curiosity – Art and the Pleasures of Knowing”, there is an extraordinary collection of 19th century glass models of marine specimens on loan from the National Museum of Wales...
Frayed: Textile Conservator on the edge
November 2013 The textiles recently installed in the “Frayed: Textiles on the Edge” exhibition at Time & Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth, have been conserved and prepared by Deborah Phipps over the past summer months. There are 50 individual textiles (including all...
“A Masterpiece in the Making…” Preparation for a Major Loan to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
October 2013 The ‘Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia’ Exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA), opened on the 14th September, and celebrates the artistic heritage of East Anglia from antiquity through to the present day. This ambitious project includes...
“Sunshine & Showers and a Silver Lining”
September 2013 Storing a Parasol, Sunshade and Umbrella Collection The Costume & Textile Collections at Shirehall Study Centre, include over 100 parasols, umbrellas and sunshades from the early 1800s to the 1960s. Some are extremely fragile with delicate silk,...
“Spit & Polish”? – Conserving ‘Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures’
July 2013 Over the last few months, the Conservation Department has been preparing objects for Thetford Ancient House Museum’s exhibition ‘Lost Tudor Sculptures’. The stonework, a mixture of sculpted figures and architectural fragments, are from monuments planned by...