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- Environmental monitoring
- What lurks under the microscope? Dust detective work
- Multispectral Imaging & the Study of Archeological Textiles
- Saving Saraha: conservation of a Tibetan thangka
- Discovering a 4,500-year-old olive oil factory in Jordan
- CONSERVATION & SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE AMITABHA BUDDHA
- 100 Years of Science & Conservation
- A century of science and conservation
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #5
- Laser cleaning of a wall painting from Byzantine Egypt
- Scythians: Scientific analysis of the Oxus treasure
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving a Ndebele beaded blanket
- Conservation of a Clove Boat
- Conserving the pottery, terracotta, and tablets from Ancient Ur (Iraq)
- Curator’s corner
- Episode 1 | Introduction
- Conservation of a crocodile mummy
- Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll
- Early dynastic cauldron
- Picasso’s 347 Suite
- Dürer’s Triumphal Arch
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Organics
- Saving Saraha: conservation of a Tibetan thangka
- “BUGS”
- New Investigations into the Tahitian Mourner’s Costume: Context, conservation and new scientific research
- Black Goo: Egyptian Funerary Ritual Residues
- Conserving a suit of samurai armour
- Textiles collection care
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Checking for pests on ‘Potent Fields’ by Karel Nel
- Zulu rifle headrest
- Conserving a Ndebele beaded blanket
- Conservation of a 12th-century textile
- Study, conservation and display of a rare pair of curtains from Late Antique Egypt
- A Charred Seed…
- Conservation of a Clove Boat
- Conservation of a crocodile mummy
Paper
- Saving Saraha: conservation of a Tibetan thangka
- Conservation treatment of a painting by Utamaro
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: photography and imaging
- Faith after the pharaohs: Egyptian papyri conservation
- Joining the Hirayama Studio
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: getting the big picture
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: a moving experience
- Working at the Hirayama Studio
- Mounting prints and drawings
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch
- Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll
- Picasso’s 347 Suite
- Dürer’s Triumphal Arch
RESEARCH LAB CENTENARY
Science
- Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ (and the differences between all 111 of them)
- Multispectral Imaging & the Study of Archeological Textiles
- Discovering a 4,500-year-old olive oil factory in Jordan
- Depicting the dead: ancient Egyptian mummy portraits
- CONSERVATION & SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE AMITABHA BUDDHA
- 100 Years of Science & Conservation
- A century of science and conservation
- “BUGS”
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #5
- How did Hokusai intend to depict Mount Fuji? Determining the sequence of impressions of the ‘Red Fuji’ Japanese woodblock print
- Etching Carnelian beads: understanding and reproducing an ancestral technique
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #4
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #3
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #2
- BM SCIENCE NEWSLETTER #1
- Black Goo: Egyptian Funerary Ritual Residues
- Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: photography and imaging
- Not fade away: preventive conservation on Hokusai prints
- Under the microscope: the Oxus treasure and Scythian gold
- Ladies aglow: finding the colour in 2,000-year-old figurines
- Laser cleaning of a wall painting from Byzantine Egypt
- Scythians: Scientific analysis of the Oxus treasure
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- The art (and science) of a colourful, cross-culturally dressing statue
- Episode 5 | Analysis
- Curator’s corner
Textile
- Saving Saraha: conservation of a Tibetan thangka
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conserving Vulture Peak
- Conservation of a 12th-century textile
- Study, conservation and display of a rare pair of curtains from Late Antique Egypt
Training
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- Textiles collection care
- Mounting prints and drawings
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