Conservation labs

UCL Culture runs two conservation labs for our museums and collections.

Our main lab on UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus serves the needs of all museums and collections at UCL. Here we also offer placement opportunities for post-graduate students from the UCL Institute of Archaeology’s MA and MSc Conservation training programmes (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/studying/masters/degrees).

We have a second conservation laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, which serves the Pathology Collection.

This lab mainly serves the needs of the UCL Pathology Collection and is set up to perform treatment work specific to the needs of these rare specimens.  However, as this laboratory has a large workroom, the space is also used for teaching purposes. This year we hosted a course on the Conservation of Fluid Preserved Natural History Collections taught by Simon Moore.