The Conserving the Archive blog was started by Design Archives’ Preservation and Digital Resources Coordinator Sirpa Kutilainen in January 2011 to document a Design Archives collaborative project with the archive and exhibition of MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill. The blog is now inactive, but continues to serve as a time capsule of over ten years of entries about the Design Archives’ conservation and preservation matters.

Category archives

The C-word

Climate. Over the past month or so I have attended a cornucopia of online lectures and events – there was the Institute of Conservation’s Book and Paper Group conference, the Archives and Records Association’s Conservation Lecture Week and The National… Continue Reading →

BSI and passive environmental controls

Let’s talk British Standards Institution and go for a bit of a version of a Throwback Thursday… Back in 2018, I had the opportunity to attend a one-day conference at the National Archives in Kew, organised by the National Conservation… Continue Reading →

Conservation and digitisation

For the past two weeks I have shifted my working-from-home to my native Finland, where I have been experiencing quarantine existence prior to being able to take some time off and see family and friends – within the restrictions in… Continue Reading →

Small notes from a home-office island

It appears some time has passed since I last wrote anything on my beloved blog – and what a ride it’s been since the last post! A lot has changed in the Design Archives in the past two years, and… Continue Reading →

The Archive of Willy de Majo Pt. II

After the initial sort out of the de Majo archive in our external storage unit, the next step in the process was for all of the materials to be transported to The Keep for conservation. We have a good, collaborative… Continue Reading →

The archive of Willy de Majo Pt. I

I’ve decided to take a trip back in time. This time last year I was in the middle of an undertaking to start planning the long term care of the Willy de Majo archive. Up to that point, some the… Continue Reading →

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