Cyswllt-Cadwraeth/Connect-Conserve Cymru

26/02/2025

04/02/2025

A big thank you to everyone from museums, heritage bods and archives who came along to the FREE salvage training day in Carmarthen Leisure Centre today! 🪣

I had lots of fun telling you my disaster stories, sharing my knowledge of salvaging collections affected by water, and letting you all handle wet materials for a little while. Hope you learned lots! 🧽

Today's event was made possible by funding from the Welsh government and the help and support of the wider Cyswllt-Cadwraeth/Connect-Conserve Cymru team - as usual, you're all brilliant! 🌟

Next event of this kind is in Bangor in March, so if you're from a Welsh GLAM organisation you should check that out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

And of course, if you'd like this sort of training for yourselves, just get in touch!

24/08/2024

What a week! 🪶

I've just been to Ireland for the first time and I've had a great time at the National Museum of Ireland with Cyswllt-Cadwraeth/Connect-Conserve Cymru: it's been a week full of bird cleaning, feather preening, knowledge sharing, and meeting some great people. 🦤

I might be a little in love with their taxidermy collection... 🤫

26/03/2024

A busy start to the week: another webinar done and dusted! This one was all about identifying plastics in collections - a daunting subject, thankfully tackled together with Dr Victoria Purewal. 🔎

This was another Cyswllt-Cadwraeth/Connect-Conserve Cymru training session funded by Welsh gov, Art Fund and Museums Development. 🫶

Hopefully I'll get back to my workshop soon though, I miss getting my hands mucky!

23/03/2024

Oh boy, I've been quiet on here!

It's actually been a very busy time this past month: I've seen off a beautiful object from Vanuatu, started working on some big ceramics, had bronchitis (ugh), and developed a training session for Cyswllt-Cadwraeth/Connect-Conserve Cymru, Museum Development and Welsh gov (which I got to deliver today!).

There's more exciting stuff in the works, so hopefully I'll be posting a whole lot more here soon. 😊

19/02/2024

A few images from our recent mould training workshops which we ran on behalf of Welsh Government, at Swansea Museum last week and Community Centre Ty Pawb, Wrexham a fortnight ago. Thanks to everyone who attended… the mould cleaning was a simulation, so no delegates were harmed during the training! 😉 Many thanks also to CXD Conservation By Design for supplying the conservation vacuums 🙏
Welsh Government Swansea Museum Tŷ Pawb

08/01/2024

For our last project of 2023, we were able to conserve this leather hold-all, once owned by an RAF Warrant Officer stationed at RAF Pembroke Doc. The hold-all is marked in paint ‘SS Empire Windrush’ a ship the man travelled in several times and had an affection for. Our client wanted the object to retain its worn character, so we cleaned the surface dirt and treated the surface mould to make it fit for display. The newly conserved hold-all will be exhibited in the near future to help tell the story of this ship, which has gained much recent publicity, as it was used to bring in the first West Indian immigrants to the UK in the 1950s.

12/12/2023

Our founding director Victoria Purewal has recently been conserving this beautiful specimen for the Welsh Pony and Cob Society. This is one of our ‘in kind’ projects, where we are able to undertake the conservation of an object for free. If you know of other community groups in Wales that would like help with one of their small cultural heritage projects, please ask them to get in touch.
The Welsh Pony and Cob Society 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

20/11/2023

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21/03/2023

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15/02/2023

We’re delighted to be hosting another in person salvage training event today at Carmarthenshire Leisure Centre. Managed and funded by Welsh Government Culture… and fully booked! 🤩
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13/02/2023

Connect Conserve’s first in person training event. We delivered a salvage training event at the National Library of Wales with the North Wales emergency response networks. There were some really interesting objects that got very wet and then got dried!