by Sholeen Sanker | Mar 7, 2017 | ETHER Conservation, Tips and Tricks
Week 10/2017: If in doubt DO NOT try! Rationale: When attempting to cleaning metal it is important to know that metals and their surfaces are porous and can be damaged very clearly. Therefore if you are not sure how to clean the items do not try ask a conservation...
by Sholeen Sanker | Mar 2, 2017 | collections management, Tips and Tricks
Week 9: Careful cleaning Metals Rationale: When attempting to cleaning metal it is important to know that metals surfaces are porous and can be damaged very clearly. therefore if you are not sure how to clean the items do not try ask a conservation expert. To review...
by Sholeen Sanker | Mar 2, 2017 | ETHER Conservation, Museums, Tips and Tricks
This page is dedicated to providing simple and easy information that will be beneficial to the storage of artefacts, storage locations, archives, libraries and other heritage institutions. A new tip will be posted at the beginning of each week. You are welcome to...
by Roger Layton | Aug 11, 2016 | ETHER Conservation, storage management
Throughout the past couple of months we have seen a significant improvement in the exchange rates between the UK Pound and the Rand. The impetus of this was the Brexit vote by the British public, causing the start of the process where the UK will leave the European...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Latest News, oral history, virtual reality
What will museum of the future look like? There are some amazing new technologies which can help to bring the museum experience to the modern user, and especially to the youth who mostly expect everything to be digital. In this series of articles I will highlight some...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites
We are renewing our offer to museums for us to provide a Mini Web Page which is localised to your town or city, and which is then discoverable by tourists and others. This is part of a larger initiative to create a general cultural atlas of the country, similar to...
