Conserving our collections

Our new video gives a fascinating insight into the conservation work going on behind the scenes.

How do you preserve a meteorite? Or clean a headdress made of kingfisher feathers? Our new video, part of the Making a Difference series, opens the doors to the National Museums Collection Centre to find out what's going on in our conservation laboratories.

Conserving a Tibetan devil dancer's mask.

Find out more about the work that goes into restoring objects, from Egyptian coffins to our Maori canoe, in preparation for the reopening of the Museum in 2011.

You can watch the video here.