Showcasing the Carcanet exhibition
The Carcanet archives are living and growing constantly: this brings exciting research and outreach opportunities, an example being the exhibitionContinue Reading
Tag: Collection care
Introduction to Collection Care
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
Taking the pith
Thanks to the Western world’s love of taking souvenirs, albums of paintings on pith being a prime example, the JohnContinue Reading
Conservation of a Renaissance Masterpiece: Prolianus’s Astronomia
One of our most beautiful Renaissance manuscripts is a copy of Christianus Prolianus’s scientific treatise, Astronomia, produced in Naples in 1478.Continue Reading
Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: Hard Decisions!
This week we met with our colleague Elaine Sheldon from the Conservation Team to discuss display proposals and concerns aboutContinue Reading
The Cellar Art Project
The Visual Collections Team has joined forces with Collection Care conservator Niki Pantazidou to try and make sense of aContinue Reading
Undiscovered collections: Guardian Archive Printed Collection
A team from Collection Management has recently completed restoring and cataloguing The Guardian Archive Printed Collection. The majority of the collection, whichContinue Reading
Greek Papyrus 6: The Nicene Creed
Tim Higson, Collection Care team leader writes: The Collection Care Department have been preparing a number of items being loanedContinue Reading
A Portrait of Enriqueta Rylands
Elaine Sheldon of The Collection Care Team writes: The library’s portrait sculpture of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands has been cleaned byContinue Reading
History of the Book MA Students on jokes and the excitement of Christmas
Hello! We’re Izzy and Jenny, both MA students at the University of Manchester taking the History of the Book courseContinue Reading