Tales from the Bench - RAMM

RAMM’s Conservators and Mountmakers preparing many different kinds of objects for the new displays. These Tales from the Bench links will take you to a story about what they are working on in the laboratories at the moment. We’ll add more information and new tales as conservation work progresses.

• Cullompton Roman hoard

  

  The emergency conservation of a recently discovered Roman burial...

• An Ichthyosaur’s Tale

  

  German intern Verena Schoefer is faced with conserving a huge fossil...

• Civil War Armour

  

  Treating armour from the English Civil War.

• Woodbury wedding dress

  

  Conservation of a 1750’s Sack Back gown

• Tyrolese Altarpiece

  

  Read about the five year treatment to reveal and stabilise a 15th...