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How the ‘Seven Deadly Agents of Destruction’ can help preserve the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Liesa Brierley, Ellinor Michel, Anthony Lewis, Chris Aldhous and Lois Olmstead How the ‘Seven Deadly Agents of Destruction’ can help preserve the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Introduction Compared to collections kept… Continue reading
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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Conservation Open Day for October half term
On Wednesday 26 October bring the family down to Crystal Palace Park to get up close and personal with the famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. During major conservation works on seven… Continue reading
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Saving swimming saurians – Conservation of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Phase Two
The iconic Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are getting further specialist repair work to halt their recent perilous decline in condition. Specialist sculpture conservators have begun working on seven of the water-based… Continue reading
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How were the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs made?
By Libby Ireland, Masters in Conservation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s magnificent creatures were clearly a time consuming and labour intensive project, but it’s not obvious… Continue reading
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Works on Iggy now complete
The conservation works to stabilise the standing Iguanodon sculpture were completed at the beginning of January. Poor Iggy was starting to feel every one of his 162 years. Iggy has… Continue reading
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Treating Iggy, the standing Iguanodon
by Rebecca Bennett, FCPD A team from Cliveden Conservation, in conjunction with The Morton Partnership, have undertaken an initial six-week programme of repairs for the London Borough of Bromley to… Continue reading
