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Moving Stores at Littlehampton Museum

Staff at Littlehampton Museum had to move collections to a temporary store in one of the on-site meeting rooms at short notice, due to unplanned building work. Find out what they accomplished using materials from the conservation resource bank.

Cranbrook Museum - Energy Audits for Kent & Medway Museums

Free energy audit designed to reduce energy utility use and costs

Environmental Monitoring at Arundel Museum

Arundel Museum have been borrowing some environmental monitors from the South East Museum Development Resource bank. Find out what they have achieved.

Care, Cleaning and Display of Military Uniform at the KSY

Volunteers at The Kent & Sharpshooters Yeomanry (KSY) Museum receive practical training after the museum reopens in a new site.

Dealing with Mould at The Historic Dockyard Chatham

Staff and volunteers at The Historic Dockyard in Chatham receive training on how to deal with mould after it was discovered there was an outbreak in one of their stores.

Fort Nelson Staff and Volunteers Experience Crime Scene Technology Training

Royal Armouries staff and volunteers were recently awarded a Training Bursary to learn how to use a portable X-ray fluorescence analyser (XRF), to enable the collection of forensic evidence from the collection of Artillery held at Fort Nelson. Conservator Matthew Hancock tells the story.

'Collections Care' Peer Development Group

How a group of Hampshire Solent museum staff and Trustees set out to work together to learn more about a topic of common interest. The group learned about Collections Care through a series of study visits to members’ museums, attendance at a Collections Trust seminar and a visit to Novium, Chichester.

Environmental monitoring, Royal Engineers Museum, Kent

In August 2013, the Royal Engineers Museum borrowed from the Conservation Resource Bank 5 Hanwell dataloggers to record the temperature and humidity levels within thier display and storage spaces.

Conservation Materials and Archives, Chatham Historic Dockyard

Chatham Historic Dockyard recently used some conservation material from the Conservation Resource Bank to help them complete an inventory project, which was vital in being able to display the collection in a new exhibition.

Environmental monitoring, Fishbourne Roman Palace

Staff at Fishbourne Roman Palace borrowed equipment from the Conservation Resource Bank in order to monitor environmental conditions around the mosaics. The hope was to correlate changes in environmenal conditions against the distribution of moss and algae growth occuring on the mosaics.

Packing Collections, Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

In July 2013 volunteers from the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum requested some material from the Conservation Resource Bank in order to help them implement recommendations on the care and storage of the museum's archive and library.

Geology and Palaeontology Curatorial Training

Placement at the Natural History Museum enhancing standards of care, display and documentation at Dinosaur Isle.

Big Animal Health Check at the Powell-Cotton Museum

See how the Head of Collections and a specialist undertook a full conservation assessment of as many of the Museum’s historic taxidermy specimens as possible in 2 of the museum's galleries.

The Historic Dockyard Chatham: Inventory and Storage

The staff at The Historic Dockyard Chatham are currently undertaking a storage project - check out what they got up to!

Group Travel Training

The Relocation of Britain at War

The Winston Churchill, Britain at War Museum, Toolley Street, London Bridge closed on 6th January 2013 and Railtrack is currently redeveloping the site. St Margaret’s Bay Museum agreed to acquire the collections and to move it from London to Kent.x

Remedial Conservation Needs Assessment

To evaluate and map the remedial conservation needs for museums of all sizes across the two sub-regions and follow up with site specific practical advice and intervention. To establish a long-term support network for collections care so that the skills and expertise developed by the project can be retained and shared.

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