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Insect-ravaged but pretty marbled pastedown for #MarblingMonday #JesuitBook #CollectionCare
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We will be closed to visitors for the month of September, while we do a deep-clean of the repositories and as much cataloguing as we can. Re-opening on Wednesday 1 October. #CollectionCare #ArchivalWork
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Our newly-acquired rare books need a little #tlc. Here they are getting a gentle but thorough clean. #CollectionCare #JesuitBooks #RareBooks
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3 Tips for Managing Your Collection: 1: Choose a museum or archive approach. 2: Consistency is key for effective management. 3: Patience pays off—it's a time investment. Explore our full toolkit for more tips: bit.ly/3AVWzWl #CollectionCare #SportingHeritage
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🔍 3 Tips for Collection Care: Choose between a museum or archive approach. Consistency is key to effective management. Patience is essential—it’s a long-term investment. Explore our full toolkit for more tips: bit.ly/3XzkSSQ #CollectionCare #SportingHeritage
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3 Tips for Managing Your Collection: 1: Choose a museum or archive approach. 2: Consistency is key for effective management. 3: Patience pays off—it's a time investment. Explore our full toolkit for more tips: bit.ly/3AVWzWl #CollectionCare #SportingHeritage
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Here are close-ups of objects from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection for the “Feel the Beat: Felted Textiles” exhibition. Photographer Dakota Mace documents details to enhance the collection's online database for researchers. #hlatc #collectioncare #textileresearch
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#Behindthescenes Oh the glamour! Not a book in sight – another new acquisition for the Creative Arts Archive. Curator @JessicaSmithCAA and Conservator @Vittorinavic cleaning and reboxing these reel-to-reel tapes in full PPE. #conservation #libraries #creativearts #collectioncare
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@teampigment from @durham_uni returned to the Rylands last week to do some pigment analysis! #pigmentanalysis #pigment #collectioncare #conservationscience
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Our vols had fun this morning with Claire & Rachel from @TheNorrisMuseum at a workshop on marking collection items 📸 The right & wrong way to mark on a Fossil Journeys collection item! #VolunteerTraining #ObjectMarking #MuseumItems #CollectionCare #MuseumCollection #Learning
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Happy International Museums Day! To celebrate IMD 2024 our Collection Care team are launching Tracing Paper Detectives, a short video promoting our heritage and specialist work @UK_ICOM #InternationalMuseumsDay2024 #BSL #CollectionCare #conservation youtu.be/HZRjb1EkC2Y

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Ready to play spot the pest damage 🐛against the clock ⏰?! You've got 2 rounds! 🤞Let us know how you do! 👇#collectioncare #museumpests #militaryuniform #wool #museumchallenge #PestManagement
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Grateful shoutout to our amazing @uofgsecurity for safeguarding our #LordKelvin pop-up display during the Wednesday's Court meeting ! 🙌 From protecting precious history to preserving scientific legacy. Thank you! @UofGlasgowASC #collectioncare #conservation #Preservation
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One of our more unusual archival objects - #Relics! Currently the relics are being listed and rehoused in acid free boxes. #CollectionCare #Archive30 @ARAScot #ArchiveObject
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Here is a snap shot of what we are busy doing during our current closure to deep clean the exhibitions. Our wonderful volunteers are helping us to clean all the objects and cases in our permanent displays. #BehindTheScenes #MuseumLife #CollectionCare
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News on the #rylandsmegillah! Degraded ink, possible parchment knots, and colourful textile - our rare and precious Esther Scroll has gone under the microscope this week to capture these intriguing photomicrographs. @seethetreasures #CollectionCare #SpecialCollections
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This morning's job for Caroline, one of our lovely volunteers - list these C18th books, and give them a little tlc. #Cataloguing #JesuitBooks #CollectionCare #RareBooks #AntiquarianBooks
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Care, Cleaning, & Cataloging Your Vinyl Records! We'll be playing some too!! Join us! #vinyl #records #discogs #cleanyourrecords #sharingmusic🎶 #cataloging #collectioncare #MeetMeAtMaes
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#Half-term projects...the @SedberghOS Coat of Arms is off the wall and receiving some TLC. After conservation work to the damaged plaster, the paint work will be touched up. #CollectionCare #Artefacts #Conservation #DevelopmentOfficeRefurb2023
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How do you display multiple pages of a book at the same time? Zoe helped us answer that. The video featured a fabulous book display cradle by Zoe Bespoke Cradles. #CollectionCare #ExhibitionPreparation
Why - in a church court case from 1666 - is there a medieval manuscript with a map of a meadow? In our second Curator's Choice video, Sarah Griffin shows us a medieval cartulary currently on display in the exhibition 'Moral and Material Decay' youtu.be/xJyOyzCdtwk
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