Current and recent projects
The precarious state of velvet hangings on James II's Bed at Knole, Kent, has led to the preliminary conservation of two of its cantonnieres at the National Trust Textile Conservation Studio. The success of the treatment will decide how the whole bed, one of the most historically important pieces of late Stuart furniture in existence, is conserved.
A major project is bringing together over half a million objects and books in the National Trust's collections into one giant computerised inventory for the first time.
A complex project to conserve Guido Reni’s painting 'The Separation of Night and Day' reached completion in spring 2006, as the 400 year old fresco was reinstated on the Library ceiling at Kingston Lacy, Dorset.
At The Vyne in Hampshire, there is a group of six full-length portraits whose original identities have been lost. Now they've been refound.
Packing up a collection of more than 22,000 objects is no mean feat. It took staff and volunteers at Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire 3 months, 600 boxes and 55,000 sheets of tissue paper.
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