Conservation

Based at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, the Conservation and Museums Advisory Service has a multi-disciplinary team specialising in object and archive conservation. We provide a range of services, including conservation treatments, environmental surveys and preventative conservation advice. We are a friendly team, with experience of working on large and small projects, and enjoy working with clients to find practical solutions and help prioritise resources.

ICM® offers an eco-friendly, chemical-free, warm air treatment method to sensitively eradicate insect pests from artworks, archives, and collection objects.
We have worked with many world-renowned museums, galleries, auction houses and heritage collections across Europe, treating a wide variety of items from oil on canvas paintings, polychrome sculptures and giltwood furniture to tapestries, ethnographic and botanical collections.
Our service can be used on-site or at our service centres in London, Brussels, Berlin and now Glasgow, in collaboration with Constantine Scotland.

Harwell is the leading supplier of emergency planning, disaster recovery and collections care solutions to the UK heritage sector, with extensive major-loss fire and flood recovery experience. 1,100+ heritage institutions are registered Priority Users of Harwell to access urgent response for fires and floods.
Harwell also provides award-winning training and consultancy in emergency planning, as well as collections care services including mould remediation, pest management, cleaning, environmental control and quarantining, plus conservation and digitisation services.