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 environmental control

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 →

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