Conservation

The Museum's Materials Conservation Section undertakes interventive and preventive conservation practices to study, interpret and preserve natural and cultural history collections housed at the Museum.

Conservation research focuses on supporting the Museum's Maritime Archaeology section. Research has been conducted so that an object's method of manufacture is better understood, to help date an artefact and group of artefacts, to understand the condition and deteriorating mechanisms of particular materials and to condition report historic shipwrecks in situ so that we can understand the object's rate and extent of deterioration and how it interacts within the marine environment.

For more information, contact the Museum's Materials Conservation Section.