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BMT Conservators

@BMTconservators

Tweets from the Birmingham Museums Trust conservation team.

 Birmingham, England
birminghammuseums.org.uk/collection/conservation
Joined May 2016
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Such brilliant volunteers! The Volunteering for Veterans project was set up to support former members of the local Armed Forces community. Conserving, cleaning & researching the motorbikes collection, they also restored a 1914 Cyclone, now @thinktankmuseum birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
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Brumpic@Brumpic5 Jan 2022
A new health and wellbeing project for ex-servicemen and women at Birmingham Museums has helped four local veterans get back on the road to recovery by conserving vintage motorbikes from the city’s collection. Read more bit.ly/3mY0HeJ
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Please support our conservation appeal to help us conserve and protect the Holy Grail Tapestries for future generations. Here our Conservation Team Leader explains what conservation work is needed. Please donate: bit.ly/BurneJones Thank you.
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WilliamMorrisGallery@WMGallery1 Dec 2021
Please support this important appeal from @BM_AG to conserve these masterpieces from #BurneJones and #WilliamMorris! justgiving.com/campaign/Burn…
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The Star of Bethlehem by Edward Burne-Jones, needs vital conservation work. Watch our Fine Art Curator Victoria explain what work is needed. Please donate, if you can, and help us converse this painting along with The Holy Grail Tapestries: bit.ly/BurneJones Thank you.
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Help us protect two of Birmingham’s star treasures. The Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces – The Star of Bethlehem and Holy Grail Tapestries need vital conservation work so they can be enjoyed by you and future generations. Find out more and donate: bit.ly/BurneJones
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If you're a fan of Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris please consider helping to conserve the wonderful Holy Grail Tapestries & The Star of Bethlehem. Birmingham Museums Trust @BM_AG has launched a fundraising appeal and needs your support! Thank you 🙏 bit.ly/BurneJones
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After an incredible 41 years @BM_AG's longest serving member of staff, Alan Giles, Senior Technician, is retiring today. Alan has probably worked on every exhibition you can remember @BM_AG - he's a legend! Thank you Alan, you're going to be missed! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
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Andrea Bonnell@AndreaBonnell6 Oct 2021
Jam packed day today - amazing photography workshop with the awesome @BMT_Photo and an eagerness to bring this bike back to its former glory ... maybe even ready for display 😉🏍️
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Image from Andrea Bonnell (@AndreaBonnell)
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The scroll had to be checked and photographed in 28 sections because of its size. Here's a timelapse showing the Collections team in action! #BrumHour
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A 15m (49ft) Japanese scroll depicting a battle is one of one of 27,000 items being digitised and catalogued at @BM_AG. The team were initially unaware of just how long the scroll would be until they began carefully unrolling it. #BrumHour birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
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I am looking forward to next weeks Pest Odyssey conference! Will be hearing about all kinds of creepy crawlies that eat museum collections! accelevents.com/e/PestOdysse…
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A set of 350-year-old embroideries have finally gone back on display at Birmingham’s @AstonHallMuseum after 10 years of painstaking restoration. And they look amazing! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blo…
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Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
Image from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG)
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Andrea Bonnell@AndreaBonnell15 Jul 2021
Yesterday we got down and dirty with the motorbike collection at the @BMTMCC 🏍️ We had a great time learning about all things conservation and exploring the collection behind the scenes. It was a real treat. Big thanks to Colin, Jenny, Alex and Ben 🤗
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Image from Andrea Bonnell (@AndreaBonnell)
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When you think you've moved everything but no, there's that one last box that seems to have come out of nowhere...
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Rob Lewis@rob_k_lewis27 May 2021
So I came as a conservation student to @BM_AG in 2001 and the Industrial Gallery had not changed a lot in 20 years. Until 2021, when rather a lot changed. . . – at Birmingham, England
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Rebecca Unsworth@BexUnsworth26 May 2021
Loving this rather startled bird on a large embroidered hanging in @BM_AG's collection, which is on display @AstonHallMuseum
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Rob Lewis@rob_k_lewis30 Apr 2021
And here’s the rest of the team, @BM_AG, the truly brilliant Collections Care team, normally @BMTMCC and @BMTconservators and those Collections specialists without hashtags, all who’ve switched to focus on inventoried and packing 1000’s of objects. Oh. And me. I do Gannts. – at Birmingham, England
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Jenny Mathiasson@curatedjenny28 Apr 2021
Lovely to see some conservation in the news 😍 I mean paintings are THE objects that make the news, but still... Look at it! Conservators at work! Mm. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5…
Empty gallery gives space to restore monumental painting

Empty gallery gives space to restore monumental painting

A painting by Edinburgh-born artist Robert Scott Lauder is the focus of a major conservation project.

bbc.co.uk
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Rebecca Unsworth@BexUnsworth28 Apr 2021
This isn't quite how they made hoops in the 18th century, but I think our supportive underskirt for a dress which will soon be going on display @AstonHallMuseum is pretty fabulous
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Image from Rebecca Unsworth (@BexUnsworth)
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