Meet the team at IFACS Bristol, who are currently conserving this very precious picture of The Bond Family for the display in the new Museum. It will be a highlight of our new People’s Dorset gallery exploring objects and stories from 500,000 years ago to the present day. Read more
Meet Mark, he’s one of our Conservators currently looking after a very special object that will be on display in the new Museum – the Yetminster Wagon. Read more
Bethany Palumbo is a Conservator specialising in the preservation of Natural History Collections. Over the next few months, she will be conserving several specimens for the new Museum, including four bird dioramas and a large Atlantic Sturgeon. Read more
Newly discovered letters show Thomas Hardy’s second wife’s joy and happiness at her marriage, and her sadness and loneliness after his death.
The last few weeks in February and the first two weeks in March saw tremendous strides being made towards the delivery of the Tomorrow’s Museum for Dorset.
The oldest chained anchor found in Dorset, and the earliest example found in Britain, is currently on loan to Poole Museum.
Four museums are swapping objects to tell stories of inspirational women from the past.
The countdown to the opening of the Museum has begun with a team of builders, contractors, specialist designers and conservators working behind the scenes to piece it all together.
The Dorset County Museum was approached by Dr Melanie Giles of the University of Manchester to use one of its most iconic Iron Age burials in their project.