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Mar 6, 2020 • 30 tweets • 16 min read
We are the Assistant Curator team at Blythe House, working on the One Collection project. We’re taking over Twitter for #InternationalWomensDay - a couple of days early since we don’t work weekends! A thread 👇
Hi! 👋 I’m Kerry (@Kerryland101), an Open University graduate with an interest in space & the history of medicine! I’ve been an Assistant Curator for 8 months and was previously a Collections Assistant here – working on the shiny new Medicine Galleries!
Mar 1, 2019 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
🔎 At our object store in west London, we are working hard to study, record, digitise, pack & transport 300,000 objects to their new home at the National Collections Centre in Wiltshire.
Today our conservation team are sharing what they do 👇
Hello 👋
Our job involves checking the condition of objects that may need treatment before they can be packed and moved to their new home.
We work closely with the inventory and hazard teams, who alert us to objects which might need our attention.
