BMT Conservators

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 birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/mot…

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 bit.ly/3mY0HeJ

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: bit.ly/BurneJones Thank you.

Please support this important appeal from @BM_AG to conserve these masterpieces from #BurneJones and #WilliamMorris! justgiving.com/campaign/Burne…

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: bit.ly/BurneJones Thank you.

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: bit.ly/BurneJones

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 🙏 bit.ly/BurneJones

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! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/bir…

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 😉🏍️

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

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 birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/sur…

I am looking forward to next weeks Pest Odyssey conference! Will be hearing about all kinds of creepy crawlies that eat museum collections! #agenda" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">accelevents.com/e/PestOdyssey2…

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! birminghammuseums.org.uk/blog/posts/his…

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 🤗

@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 Derek.Brain@birminghammuseums.org.uk @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 Derek.Brain@birminghammuseums.org.uk @BMTconservators

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

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. . .

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

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.