Case Studies

£5,000 The conservation and storage of the collection The CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket, based at the headquarters of Glamorgan County Cricket Club at …

We knew that we had problems with the environmental conditions of our store rooms and some exhibition cases, but wanted a conservation audit to provide both a professional assessment of the situation, and advice to the curatorial staff on how to store and preserve items in the collection better.

The benefits to the museum of the audit, as it forges a new path in recovery post-pandemic, has been a vital reset and refresh, and a straightforward and simple approach to prioritising future actions, delivered with friendly and helpful expertise.

Durham Museum received a donation of two paintings by George Fennell Robson in 2021, a bequest from a descendant of the artist. An AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Grant has enabled the paintings to be repaired and cleaned for permanent display.

This book repair project, although small, has been incredibly helpful, enabling us to repair eight books that were badly damaged. Each one contributes to the overall narrative of the House and has its own story in terms of why it’s in our collection and its significance to Elizabeth and her family.

Gairloch Museum applied to AIM Pilgrim Trust to conserve an album of watercolour paintings from the First World War by Finlay Mackinnon.

In October 2020, staff at Auchindrain Historic Township in Argyll found a bodice within the attic of one of their longhouses, which appeared to have been deliberately deposited over a century ago. This grant enabled the team to clean and stabilise the bodice for long term storage

Three attendees from The Highlanders Museum attended the National Army Museum Regimental Curators course in Edinburgh.

Port Sunlight certainly lived up to its name, not only did the sunshine on us for the whole of the conference, but attending certainly helped shed light on a variety of topics too.