Highlights in this issue
Ethics in Action - Conservation of King James II's Wedding Suit
Gillian Owens, Senior Textile Conservator, Textiles Conservation
In 1995 the Victoria and Albert Museum acquired a suit made for King James II of England to wear at his wedding to Mary of Modena.
The Stein Loan of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Anne Godden Amos, Senior Textile Conservator, Textile Conservation
A brief glimpse into the history of Chinese Central Asia is afforded by a small display case located in the Textile Study Rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
'Can It Go?'
Albert Neher, Head of Furniture Conservation
This is a question conservators at the V& A are regularly asked, the context usually being when an object in the collection is requested for an exhibition.
An Anglo-Asian-American Experience
Sophia Strang Steel, RCA/V&A MA Conservation Course student, Metalwork Conservation
For eight weeks last summer I worked in the conservation laboratory of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and on a collection of outdoor bronzes at Stanford University.
January 1998 Issue 26
- Editorial - What is Research?
- Standards
- Ethics in Action - Conservation of King James II's Wedding Suit
- The Stein Loan of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Consolidating Museum Staff - Training in the Great Outdoors
- Conservation Department Group Photograph
- 'Can It Go?'
- Modern Art: Who Cares? Amsterdam 8-10 September 1997
- An Anglo-Asian-American Experience
- United Kingdom Institute for Conservation and The Victoria & Albert Museum
- RCA/V&A Conservation Course Abstracts
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