Wednesday, 1st February 2012
This video offers a glimpse of the public tours of the Hoard Conservation studio that took place at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on 3rd December 2011. Visitors were able to see the Hoard in the gallery, talk with conservation staff, view Hoard objects with...
Monday, 7th November 2011
This video was filmed October 22nd – October 28th in Washington D.C. Two of the Hoard conservation team, project manager Deborah Cane and conservator Deborah Magnoler, went over to the United States to help in the setting up of the Staffordshire Hoard exhibition at the...
Sunday, 11th September 2011
In this video the Hoard Conservation team discuss the silver fragments in the Hoard. It includes showing one of the results of test 3D scanning on silver fragments by the National Conservation Centre at National Museums Liverpool. The test enabled conservators to see patterns and...
Sunday, 11th September 2011
Short video showing the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery team and others at work setting up the Staffordshire Hoard exhibition at Tamworth Castle for the last leg of the Mercian Trail tour.
Sunday, 11th September 2011
This video is about the repackaging of small silver foil fragments from the Staffordshire Hoard. This is the last video blog by Conservation student Ellen Promise from the University of Delaware. Ellen was an intern with the Conservation team at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery....
Friday, 2nd September 2011
BMAG curator Dr David Symons enthuses about a reproduction helmet made by Dave Roper. It was commissioned by Tamworth Council and is on display as part of the Staffordshire Hoard exhibition at Tamworth Castle from August 27th to September 18th 2011. Parts of the helmet...
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011
This video shows the conservation team’s involvement with the setting up of the Staffordshire Hoard exhibition at Lichfield Cathedral. This includes checking on the condition of the objects to ensure that they have not been damaged in transit. The exhibition is on from July 30th...
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011
This brief video shows the Hoard exhibition in the Shire Hall Gallery in Stafford as it is being taken down and moved to Lichfield Cathedral for the second leg of the Mercian Trail tour.
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011
On June 10th 2011 Tony Robinson and Fulcrum TV were at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery working on a TV programme about the Staffordshire Hoard. The Hoard team videoed the day – including filming the TV crew filming them! This has been cut into a...
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011
In this video Graeme McArthur demonstrates XRF (X-ray fluorescence) analysis on a Hoard object. He has written a blog about this work Using XRF Analysis on Two Staffordshire Hoard Objects which contains images of the objects and the XRF spectrum graphs.