Grand debut into Heritage: A Peek into my Collections Care Assistant Role Isabela Tapia Hernandez The Collections Care Assistant role was created for our students to explore the cultural heritage sector through employment and support their career aspirations post-graduation. This is the …Continue reading →

Reflections on a Journey in Conservation: My Time as a Collections Care Assistant Back in March we welcomed our new Student Collections Care Assistants; Abigail Miskin, Ella Joyce and Isabela Tapia Hernandez. Four months on and it is time to say goodbye and …Continue reading →

It’s audit time! TAGS: Collections Management | Edinburgh University Art Collections Anyone who has attended a meeting, had a conversation in the corridor, or bumped into me in one of our stores, knows that one of my main talking points for …Continue reading →

Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles TAGS: book conservation | book cradles | book display | book mount | Centre for Research Collections | conservation | display | environmental sustainability | Exhibition | installation | mounting | panoramas | rare books | SirCharlesLyell | Sustainability | technician | University of Edinburgh In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation team’s ongoing work to make exhibitions at the University of …Continue reading →

Is that Vegan…? Conscious conservation changes during the One Health Project and beyond. By Amanda Dodd, Projects Conservator, Heritage Collections In this week’s blog, Amanda Dodd reviews the work she did on the One Health Project with a particular focus on this use …Continue reading →

A big welcome to our new Student Collections Care Assistants We are delighted to welcome three new people to the Conservation and Collections Management Team this month. Abigail Miskin, Ella Joyce and Isabela Tapia Hernandez will be joining us as …Continue reading →

The Art of Asking: Requesting Loans for Exhibition TAGS: Collections Management | collections registrar | Loans By Morven Rodger, Collections Registrar, Heritage Collections As the Collections Registrar, one of my core responsibilities is coordinating loans from the University’s Heritage Collections to external exhibitions. Whenever an item …Continue reading →

Who Made the MIMEd 4477 Double Manual Flemish Harpsichord? (Part1) In the first post of this two part series, our Musical Instrument Care Technician (and former conservation intern), Esteban Mariño Garza, discusses his Musical Instrument Research and Documentation Internship project …Continue reading →

Lingerie, Giant Frisbees and Heavy Lifting: Tackling the ITI Collection at Edinburgh University TAGS: appraisal | Archives | Computing | information technology By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archives Collections Manager Several months ago, my colleague Jasmine Hide and I wrote two introductory posts about our new roles and what they entailed. This …Continue reading →

It’s Friday the 13th! It’s that time of the year when the leaves start changing, the air gets cooler, and I get creeped out by works in the collection… As the Art Collection is …Continue reading →