Welcome to Natural-History-Conservation.com a UK-based company.

We offer a range of services to the museum and heritage industry including, but not limited to, the following:

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Natural History Conservation


Recent clients have included:


National Trust properties that have been clients recently include:

Examples: If you would like to see examples of some of our recent conservation projects please select from the options below. The first list pertains to taxidermy, spirit-preserved specimens and training courses, and the second list relates to palaeontology, geology, osteology and some archaeology:

Taxidermy and osteological work, fluid-preserved specimens, training courses and conservation assessments:

  • Conserving the crucifix of Sandham Memorial Chapel

  • Conserving the St Agnes Museum turtle, Sam

  • Fluid Preservation course, Cambridge 2010

  • Mounting the Mary Rose Dog

  • Celloidin repair of a Rhizostome jellyfish

  • Conservation report and remedial treatment of specimens, the Stewart Museum, Pocklington.

  • Work undertaken in 2005 for the National Trust

  • Work undertaken in 2005 for English Heritage and other organisations

  • The cleaning, consolidation and rebuilding of whalebone arch in Workman Park, Evesham, 2005

  • Training in fluid-preservation techniques at Oxford University Natural History Museum, April 2006

  • Work undertaken in 2004 for the National Trust

  • The cleaning, consolidation and rebuilding of a 5-metre high whalebone arch for Buscot Estate

  • The cleaning and repair of a monkey and rat for Haden Hill House

  • The conservation and restoration of skeletons, heads and full taxidermy specimens for Haselmere Museum

  • Conservation assessment and treatment of natural history collections at Audley End House

  • The conservation and cleaning of taxidermy and fossil specimens for Calke Abbey

  • Training in fluid-preservation techniques at Reading University’s Cole Museum of Zoology

  • The conservation of cased taxidermy specimens for the Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery in Bournemouth

  • Training in the conservation of fluid-preserved specimens at the Horniman Museum, London

  • Recent Conservation Surveys

  • Miscellaneous Projects

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    Geological, palaeontololgical and archaeological work:

  • Collections surveys and 'Collection Level Descriptions'.

  • Dismantling a large wall-mounted ichthyosaur skeleton for the Hancock Museum, Newcastle

  • Conservation survey of the geology collections of Dorset County Museum and undertaking certain conservation projects

  • Cleaning and conserving a giant deer skull and antlers, and modelling-in the missing tines

  • Excavating and preparing a partial skeleton of a 6,000 year-old blue whale skeleton in Abu Dhabi

  • Conserving and remounting an ichthyosaur skeleton for Kings Lynn Museum

  • Making supportive mounts for the Holme Timber Circle - 'Seahenge'

  • Conserving a badly damaged giant deer skeleton

  • Preparing and conserving an important six-foot long Plesiosaur skeleton for Somerset Museum

  • Lifting a bison skull at Swanscombe, Kent, at short notice for Oxford Archaeological Unit

  • Working in Abu Dhabi, conserving the largest fossil specimen ever to have been found in the United Arab Emirates

  • Conserving Miocene fossils for the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey

  • Conserving a partial skeleton of Stegotetrabelodon syrticus in Abu Dhabi

  • Excavating, jacketing and lifting sub-fossil specimens from an early Pleistocene site for the Ancient Hominid Occupation of Britain Project

  • Preparing, conserving and creating permanent storage media for Woolly Mammoth tusks and bones for Bradford University's Department of Archaeological Sciences

  • Conserving a large fossil fish, and modelling-in some missing areas - for Bedford Museum.

  • Conserving fossil marine reptiles for Dorset Museum in Dorchester

  • Conservation specialist for a five-month long Middle Palaeolithic mammoth excavation in Norfolk

  • Conserving a complete ichthyosaur skeleton for a private collector

  • Conservation of geological and osteological specimens for display in the new Thinktank museum in Birmingham

  • The excavation and conservation of a Palaeoloxodon antiquus tusk for Swan Valley Community School, Kent

  • Conserving and preparing dinosaur material for the BBC on the Isle of Wight

  • Excavating Neanderthals in Gibraltar for the Natural History Museum, London

  • The West Runton Elephant Conservation Project, for Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service

  • Conserving and preparing geological and palaeontological material at the Natural History Museum, London

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    For more details about what we can do for you, or for a quote, please contact us at: enquiries@natural-history-conservation.com
    We are members of the Natural Sciences Collections Association and the Institute of Conservation (formerly United Kingdom Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works)..