BMT Conservators

Tweets from the Birmingham Museums Trust conservation team.

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

Such brilliant volunteers! The Volunteering for Veterans project was set up to support former members of the local Armed Forces community. Conserving, cleaning & researching the motorbikes collection, they also restored a 1914 Cyclone, now @thinktankmuseum
https://t.co/cPPg8mt84o

[Brumpic @Brumpic]

A new health and wellbeing project for ex-servicemen and women at Birmingham Museums has helped four local veterans get back on the road to recovery by conserving vintage motorbikes from the city’s collection.

Read more https://t.co/rP5lUPYANa

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

Please support our conservation appeal to help us conserve and protect the Holy Grail Tapestries for future generations.

Here our Conservation Team Leader explains what conservation work is needed.

Please donate: https://t.co/gaJ2WLEHf3

Thank you.

[WilliamMorrisGallery @WMGallery]

Please support this important appeal from @BM_AG to conserve these masterpieces from #BurneJones and #WilliamMorris!

https://t.co/Rndsc06VfG

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

The Star of Bethlehem by Edward Burne-Jones, needs vital conservation work. Watch our Fine Art Curator Victoria explain what work is needed.

Please donate, if you can, and help us converse this painting along with The Holy Grail Tapestries: https://t.co/gaJ2WLEHf3
Thank you.

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

Help us protect two of Birmingham’s star treasures.

The Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces – The Star of Bethlehem and Holy Grail Tapestries need vital conservation work so they can be enjoyed by you and future generations.

Find out more and donate: https://t.co/5kqlVZ2ItL

[Bham Museums Images @BMAGimages]

If you're a fan of Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris please consider helping to conserve the wonderful Holy Grail Tapestries & The Star of Bethlehem. Birmingham Museums Trust @BM_AG has launched a fundraising appeal and needs your support! Thank you 🙏
https://t.co/dFFaDzMDpE

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

After an incredible 41 years @BM_AG's longest serving member of staff, Alan Giles, Senior Technician, is retiring today. Alan has probably worked on every exhibition you can remember @BM_AG - he's a legend!

Thank you Alan, you're going to be missed!
https://t.co/sUS8FBPixt

[Andrea Bonnell @AndreaBonnell]

Jam packed day today - amazing photography workshop with the awesome @BMT_Photo and an eagerness to bring this bike back to its former glory ... maybe even ready for display 😉🏍️

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

The scroll had to be checked and photographed in 28 sections because of its size. Here's a timelapse showing the Collections team in action!
#BrumHour

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

A 15m (49ft) Japanese scroll depicting a battle is one of one of 27,000 items being digitised and catalogued at @BM_AG. The team were initially unaware of just how long the scroll would be until they began carefully unrolling it. #BrumHour
https://t.co/5sWffrn6dt

[BMT Conservators @BMTconservators]

I am looking forward to next weeks Pest Odyssey conference! Will be hearing about all kinds of creepy crawlies that eat museum collections!
https://t.co/dTKnbnms9J

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

A set of 350-year-old embroideries have finally gone back on display at Birmingham’s @AstonHallMuseum after 10 years of painstaking restoration. And they look amazing!
https://t.co/GBu3QD8RTC

[Andrea Bonnell @AndreaBonnell]

Yesterday we got down and dirty with the motorbike collection at the @BMTMCC 🏍️ We had a great time learning about all things conservation and exploring the collection behind the scenes. It was a real treat. Big thanks to Colin, Jenny, Alex and Ben 🤗

[BMT Conservators @BMTconservators]

@IconPaintings @CCG_ICON @ICONArchaeology @ICON_Textiles @ICONdynamics @icon Birmingham Museums Trust has surplus materials free to collect from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery full list available from [email protected]
@BMTconservators

[BMT Conservators @BMTconservators]

@Furniture_Icon Birmingham Museums Trust has surplus materials useful particularly for furniture conservation available free if you can collect from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery contact [email protected] @BMTconservators

[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery @BM_AG]

When you think you've moved everything but no, there's that one last box that seems to have come out of nowhere...

[Rob Lewis @rob_k_lewis]

So I came as a conservation student to @BM_AG in 2001 and the Industrial Gallery had not changed a lot in 20 years. Until 2021, when rather a lot changed. . .

[Rebecca Unsworth @BexUnsworth]

Loving this rather startled bird on a large embroidered hanging in @BM_AG's collection, which is on display @AstonHallMuseum

[Rob Lewis @rob_k_lewis]

And here’s the rest of the team, @BM_AG, the truly brilliant Collections Care team, normally @BMTMCC and @BMTconservators and those Collections specialists without hashtags, all who’ve switched to focus on inventoried and packing 1000’s of objects. Oh. And me. I do Gannts.