• Giving advice on preventive conservation issues pertaining to natural history collections
• Advising on, or indeed organising and undertaking, the packing and transportation of individual specimens or entire collections. We have a great deal of experience of HLF funded projects and the transfer of entire collections to new sites
• Undertaking condition reports and conservation surveys
• Undertaking remedial conservation projects, large or small, for all types of natural history specimens and collections. Click here for examples.



• Delivery of training courses in a variety of techniques, including:
  
  • Preventive conservation strategies
  • Pest management
  • Moving individual specimens and entire collections
  • The cleaning, remedial conservation and restoration of natural history specimens
  • Our next course on the care and conservation of fluid-preserved specimens will take place at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery in April 2008 - click here for more details. )
• We also provide moulding, casting and model-making services for displays and research. If you would like to see examples of recent work of this kind, please click here
  

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:

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

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