Icky Sticky Tape This week’s blog has been written by Lisa Behrens, a book and paper conservation student from Stuttgart in Germany, who spent four weeks at CRC’s conservation studio earlier this summer. …Continue reading →

Bigger and Better Things TAGS: Conservation of large format collections | patrick geddes | surface cleaning | tear repair In this week’s blog, Sarah MacLean, an MA Conservation of Fine Art student from Northumbria University, describes a two-week work placement she undertook with us in July 2018… During my …Continue reading →

My Royal Mile TAGS: Collections rationalisation project | conservation | University Collections Facility This week, we have our final blog from Project Conservator, Helen Baguley, who has been working with us for the past 18 months on the Collections Rationalisation Project… The Royal …Continue reading →

Completion of the Thomson-Walker Project TAGS: CMC poultice | Thomson Walker collection In this week’s blog our final Thomson-Walker Intern, Giulia, talks about the completion of the Thomson-Walker project and her experience of working at the CRC… We did it! The conservation …Continue reading →

Session Paper Project Internship TAGS: Scottish Session Papers | surface cleaning | tear repair My name is Claire and I am the first intern to work with Nicole on the Session Papers Project.  I am due to graduate with a master’s degree in paper …Continue reading →

The Good, the Fair and the Unusable. Conservation of Session Papers at the CRC. TAGS: digitisation | Session Papers This week, Projects Conservator Nicole introduces a brand new project she is working on at the CRC… I am currently working on a 6-month pilot project to conserve three collections …Continue reading →

Thomson-Walker Internship – Round 5! TAGS: medical portraits | Thomson-Walker Our final Thomson-Walker intern introduces herself in this week’s blog post…. “I feel like a pastry chef!”: this was my first thought while trying to smear an even layer of …Continue reading →

Thomson-Dunlop Research and Conservation Internship Our blog this week comes from Michela Albano, who recently spent four weeks working with our Musical Instrument Conservator, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet… Thanks to the Thomson-Dunlop Research and Conservation …Continue reading →

Problem Photographs in the Patrick Geddes Collection TAGS: patrick geddes | photograph conservation This week’s blog comes from Project Conservator, Nicole Devereux, who has come across a sticky situation with some photographs during the ‘Evergreen: Patrick Geddes and the Environment in Equilibrium’ project… …Continue reading →

Thompson-Walker Internship TAGS: Internship | Thomson-Walker This week, we have a final blog post from Irene, our fourth Thomson-Walker Intern…. Times goes by so quickly, and I am already reaching the last week of my internship …Continue reading →