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'Lampy' the First Garden Gnome!
Verena Mauldon, this year's Alex Copland Attingham Scholar, had an unusual encounter at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. In this blog, she reveals the history of Lampy, the gallant garden gnome who captured her imagination.
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This is not a Kowangan
This blog was written by Rosie Cook, a 2016 graduate of the University of Melbourne's Master of Cultural Materials Conservation. Rosie was also the winner of the 2016 Alexander Copand Award for her minor thesis, This is not a Kowangan: A case-study in community collaboration as conservation of a world culture musical instrument.
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Attingham Trust: Royal Collection Studies
Focused and intense, profoundly enriching and stimulating, the 2015 Royal Collection Studies course was an unforgettable experience. The Royal Collection is one of the largest and most important collections of fine and decorative arts in the world and these treasures form an integral part of a remarkable range of Royal residencies and other historical buildings and places of interest to architectural and art historians and curators.
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The Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology applied for funding for the conservation of (9) nine 14th to 16th centuries stained glass windows in its collection that were in urgent need of restoration.
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