Putting Kew Palace to bed
Putting Kew Palace to Bed Kew Palace welcomes many visitors during spring and summer. It is...
Archives: Conservation
Queen Victoria’s petticoat wrapped up!
In the last post we saw how Queen Victoria’s petticoat has been conserved. It is now...
Kensington Palace Gains a Throne Canopy
Its doors briefly closed, the Presence Chamber at Kensington Palace has reopened with a throne canopy...
Queen Victoria’s petticoat: underwear...
In the last post we saw how Queen Victoria’s petticoat was wet cleaned. Now the cream...
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...