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.

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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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