Morven
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Cultural Heritage and Museum person in Scotland's Central Belt | she/her
Collections hazard management in the news Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜
If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
New technology at St Andrews University helps librarians detect when old books are bad for readers' health
bbc.com
I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/
Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · last yr.News | Imperial War Museum’s war medal exhibition closing to make way for post-WWII galleries – Lord Ashcroft 'sad' over shutdown of gallery funded by his £5m donation
Checking in on Charles Lyell's notebook and 'fossilised' raindrops today at Talbot Rice, where the galleries are filled with the scent of incense and the sound of hand claps mimicking rainfall #Museum30 #Senses www.trg.ed.ac.uk/exhibition/r...
