Queen Victoria’s petticoat: underwear...
In the last post we saw how Queen Victoria’s petticoat was wet cleaned. Now the cream...
Archives: Conservation
Cataloguing samples – An Intern’s View
How do you catalogue architectural samples and object fragments? That was the question, or rather...
Museum Practice at Historic Royal Palaces –...
Nicole Wortman (left) and Anna Rowe (right) getting to grips with Collections Management at Historic Royal...
Queen Victoria’s Petticoat takes a bath
In our previous post we learned about the condition of Queen Victoria’s petticoat. Today I want to...
Reigate stone research at the Tower of London
My name is Martin Michette and I am writing my PhD on Reigate Stone at the...
Object of the month – A life without sugar?
Historic Royal Palaces’ Collections Management team regularly holds an ‘object of the month’ competition to share...
Queen Victoria’s petticoat magnified:...
When I heard I was going to lead the project to conserve this petticoat I got...
Throne Canopy at Kensington Palace: almost there!
These past few months we’ve been busy finishing the Queen Anne throne canopy conservation; tying together...
Queen Victoria’s Petticoat: a rare survivor...
Welcome to this blog series on the conservation of our latest acquisition, a beautiful cotton lawn...
Revealing our tapestry’s true colours
The back of a tapestry can help us unpick the history of its creation and repair...