During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum coll

The nineteen papers in this collection come from a conference which explored current attitudes to restoration among a wide range of conservators (including pain

In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconi

Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can als

Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice demonstrates the development in the role and practice of the textile conservator and captures the current diversity o