Hi All,
We here at the Conservation unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England have recently completed a short training video entitled ‘Core principles of fluid preservation: Routine maintenance of the specimen’, which can be viewed at http://youtu.be/Oe48q7B6IoY. This project has been generously funded by the John Ellerman Foundation and the Hunterian Museum Trustees.
This video concentrates on the historical methods we use to maintain spirit preserved specimens, housed in glass jars. We hope it will benefit those who are responsible for fluid preserved specimen collections, but lack practical experience. We will also be publishing a training manual to accompany the video, which will be online shortly.
We hope this will be the first of several similar productions covering important aspects of wet specimen conservation. We would value your feedback and would be keen to hear about other training subjects you think might be useful to be produced in this format.
We will be displaying a poster about the making of this video at the forthcoming NatSCA conference in May, if you are attending please do come and have a look!
Best wishes
Amalia
Amalia Lemprière | Assistant Conservator | Museums Conservation
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