The Interface Between Science and Conservation (British Museum Occasional Papers)

Twenty-nine papers which aim to pool the insights and gains made by research carried out by conservation scientists in order to improve conservation techniques in the museums themselves. Papers include: The impact of consevation science in the British Museum (Susan Bradley); The development of conservation science at the Tate Gallery (Stephen Hackney); The significance of physics in conservation research and education (Raik Jarjis); Botanical and ethnobotanical knowledge and the conservation of artefacts (Mark Sandy); Lasers in art conservation (Costas Fotakis et al.); The cleaning of coin hoards: the benefits of a collaborative approach (David Thickett and Celestine Enderly); Can scientists and conservators work together? (Ellen Ruth McCrady).