From ancient Roman painted walls to Victorian gothic decoration, English Heritage cares for 77 wall paintings, the country’s largest and most significant collection – some even older than those in the Sistine Chapel.
England’s wall paintings are at risk from a number of factors and each faces a unique combination of threats including the damp English weather, the ancient buildings they are in and poor past restoration.
Find out about how you can support the conservation of these irreplaceable treasures: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/our-appeals/wallpaintings/
These irreplaceable artworks require highly-skilled conservation. Learn more about the care and conservation of England’s wall paintings and ask English Heritage’s Senior Collections Conservator, Rachel Turnbull, a question.
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Currently our dad is in a memory care facility because he has dementia. My mother was his guardian and conservator until the time of her death which was 4 months ago.
I was supposed to be his guardian and conservator after my mom’s passing but my brother wasn’t having it, took me to court over it, so we decided to have a court appointed 3rd party step in, and this is what happened.
He is hell bent on getting that power back from the 3rd party and so he wants me to side with him and agree to be co guardian. I don’t think he can be guardian on his own without me because he has an arrest record.
I don’t want my dad to be a ward of the state but my brother destroys everything in his path. I don’t want to be involved with my brother either.
What should I do?
Hi! Lynn Grant and Molly Gleeson here, conservators at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, or Penn Museum for short. We’re part of an ongoing exhibition called In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies, which features our working conservation lab in full public view. Visitors can watch us as we work to conserve objects from the Museum’s vast collections, focusing primarily on ancient Egyptian objects such as mummies, sarcophagi, figurines, pottery, and much more. And twice a day, we host Q&A sessions with the public—so we figured, why not do the same thing on Reddit?
We also maintain a blog to share our work with the public. Here are some samples to give you an idea of what we do in the Artifact Lab:
Completing the treatment of Tawahibre’s coffin
More about our Predynastic mummy
Video: Shabti paint consolidation
We’re excited to answer your questions about conserving ancient artifacts, or about the materials with which we’ve been working in the exhibition. Our social media coordinator, Tom Stanley, is also here to help with tech support and general info about the Penn Museum. Ask us anything!
EDIT: Thanks for all your interest and terrific questions! We're finished taking your questions for today—we'll come back and answer some more tomorrow. In the meanwhile, you can always ask us questions on the In the Artifact Lab blog. And come visit us in person someday!
EDIT 2: We dropped back in and answered a few more questions just now—if we didn't get to yours, we're sorry! But please visit our blog and keep the conversation going. We loved talking with all of you.
US resident here, specifically Denver, Colorado area. I don’t know the system at all, (hence me asking this) but if she’s an appointed conservator then isn’t she paid by the govt?
Things are more than hectic in his life right now and he was supposed to meet with her today, but hasn’t heard from her all month. It is now past the time at which they were supposed to meet. He’s always saying she doesn’t do anything for him and that she refuses to help him.
Granted my friend is severely mentally disabled, but something doesn’t feel right about this. What responsibilities are within the limits of an appointed conservator, and where do they get paid from? Has she been stealing money from my friend and not helping him on purpose?
In the US, it is illegal force a woman (including a minor by her parents) to have an abortion, or to perform one without her explicit consent. But what happens if a pregnant woman is deemed medically incompetent and/or has a conservator that can legally make all medical decisions for her? Could a physician perform an abortion on her while she screams and cries for them not to while the conservator still insists it needs to be done? What do you think is right or moral in this type of situation?
Hi Reddit! We are a group of curators and a conservator at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
We do work on everything from endangered prairie plants and the relationship they have with pollinating insects like bees, to collecting artifacts from the Fur Trade era, to conservation efforts on cool things like a big ship dating back to 1650 (here's Carolyn cleaning the Nonsuch).
It's #AskACurator day, so ask us anything!
Kevin Brownlee, Curator of Archaeology
Dr. Amelia Fay, Curator of HBC Collection
Dr. Diana Bizecki-Robson, Curator of Botany
Carolyn Sirett, Conservator
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EDIT We are out of here! We had a great time and we'd like to do this again sometime. Thanks for participating in our very first AMA!
