Morven
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Cultural Heritage and Museum person in Scotland's Central Belt | Collections Registrar | #UCU | she/her
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Collections hazard management in the news
Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜
Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜
If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
New technology at St Andrews University helps librarians detect when old books are bad for readers' health
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Collections hazard management in the news
Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜
Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜
Morven jump scare
Amazing work by Louise!! Want to play an Avebury cosy game? Have at it:
louisebedford.com/no-stone-lef...
louisebedford.com/no-stone-lef...
June 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Morven jump scare
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Welp…
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.
In an extraordinary move, MFA to return prized African art to wealthy donor and close gallery - The Boston Globe
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead
www.bostonglobe.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Welp…
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I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/
News | Imperial War Museum’s war medal exhibition closing to make way for post-WWII galleries – Lord Ashcroft 'sad' over shutdown of gallery funded by his £5m donation
Imperial War Museum's war medal exhibition closing to make way for post-WWII galleries - Museums Association
Lord Ashcroft 'sad' over shutdown of gallery funded by his £5m donation
www.museumsassociation.org
February 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/
Checking in on Charles Lyell's notebook and 'fossilised' raindrops today at Talbot Rice, where the galleries are filled with the scent of incense and the sound of hand claps mimicking rainfall #Museum30 #Senses
www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/r...
www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/r...
November 9, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Checking in on Charles Lyell's notebook and 'fossilised' raindrops today at Talbot Rice, where the galleries are filled with the scent of incense and the sound of hand claps mimicking rainfall #Museum30 #Senses
www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/r...
www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/r...
For me, this is the one.
November 9, 2023 at 8:24 AM
For me, this is the one.