Semply the Best: A Collection in Need of Some Love TAGS: large scale survey | School of Divinity | Semple Collection | surface cleaning | University of Edinburgh This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants Anna O’Regan, Winona O’Connor and Max Chesnokov who worked with Preventive Conservator Katharine Richardson on a project back in 2019 to survey …Continue reading →

Thompson Dunlop Conservation internship at St Cecilia’s Hall 2019 Article written by Riccardo Angeloni in 2019 One from the archives this week! In this article we’ll transport you back to July 2019 (months before Covid-19 even existed, imagine that!) …Continue reading →

Volunteering Virtually with Conservation TAGS: Arabic calligraphy | Persian calligraphy | Ragamala | volunteer | X-ray Fluorescence | XRF A new year and a new blog from the conservation studio! Our first blog of the month comes from Stephanie Graban, an undergraduate student from the University of Edinburgh currently …Continue reading →

Conserving the Mackinnon Collection TAGS: Conservation Internship | Mackinnon collection | National Manuscript Conservation Trust This week, Claire Hutchison describes the start of her eight-week internship working to conserve the Mackinnon collection… I am four weeks into my internship at the CRC and absolutely loving …Continue reading →

Student Placement Experience – Tara Laubach TAGS: conservation of newspapers | conservation of tracing paper | nanocellulose film | remoistenable tissue Find out what it is like to be a work placement student in the conservation studio in this week’s blog… My name is Tara Laubach. I am currently studying the …Continue reading →

XRF Internship at St Cecilia’s Hall TAGS: harpsichord | Ioannes Couchet | musical instruments | pigment identification | XRF In this week’s blog, we hear from Despoina Papazoglou who was an intern at St Celilia’s Hall from April to June 2019. Her internship focused on the material analysis of …Continue reading →

XRF Internship at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Burke and Hare | conservation science | Egyptian ushabtis | elemental analysis | XRF Find out what our Employ.ed Intern, Cameron Perumal, got up to in the final weeks of her project at the CRC in this week’s blog… As I near the end …Continue reading →

Scientific Analysis of Heritage Collections using XRF – Employ.ed Internship 2019 TAGS: Employ.ed Internship | X-ray Fluorescence | XRF This week’s blog post comes from Cameron Perumal who recently began a 10-week Employ.ed internship in the Conservation Studio at the CRC…  Two weeks into my Employ.ed internship, and I …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation – Thomas Nelson Collection TAGS: crowdsourcing conservation | rehousing | thomas nelson collection Following on from the popular “Crowdsourcing Conservation” sessions held in February 2017 and 2018, the Centre for Research Collections held seven more crowdsourcing events from October 2018 to March 2019. …Continue reading →

Who You Gonna Call? (Dustbusters!) TAGS: museum vacuum cleaners | surface cleaning | University Collection Facility This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants, Anna O’Regan and Stephanie Allen, who assisted the Museum Collections Team with a large scale move of artworks by Edinburgh College of Art …Continue reading →