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A practical guide to dealing with your sensitive pyrites, delicate bones and fragile fossils in an individual tailor-made way, led by Caroline Buttler, geological conservator, National Museum of Wales.
10.00: Registration
10.30: Caroline Buttler:Introductions & housekeeping
10.40: Bob Child:The interrelationship between temperature, humidity, moisture content and size and shape
11.00: Caroline Buttler:Why create microclimates and what are anoxic micro-climates?
12.00: Lunch
13.00: Practical sessionHow to create and maintain microclimates.
Case studies of practical solutions with Laura Ratcliffe, conservator (Royal Cornwall Museum); examples of microclimates in use, including examples in stores with Cindy Howells, collection manager: palaeontology (NMW)
15.30: Tea & Discussion: Sharing experience & ideas: what’s the most practical & appropriate for your sensitive specimens?
16.00: Finish
Workshop registration fee: £10.
Tea & coffee will be provided. Lunch can be bought on the day from the museum café. Spaces are very limited due to the space of the laboratory so book early to avoid disappointment. If demand is high we will run a second workshop as near to the original date as practicable.
For further details & to book a place, or to offer a further case-study presentation, please contact Helen
Fothergill at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AJ tel: 01752 304765
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