British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

The Technical Research Bulletin publishes the results of collaborative work by the British Museum's curators, conservators and scientists covering a broad range of objects and materials from across the Museum’s collection.

Published once a year, each issue aims to encompass objects from different continents, historical periods and material types. The Bulletin is designed to appeal both to those with a general interest in the Museum’s collections and those with a specialist interest who wish to broaden their horizons.

Volume 1

Examines some of the different material aspects of objects in the Museum collection.

Read Volume 1

Volume 2

Available now in hard copy and online in Autumn 2009:

• A new look at an old cat: a technical investigation of the Gayer-Anderson cat
• A musical instrument fit for a queen: the metamorphosis of a Medieval citole
• The manufacture and decoration of Parthian glazed ‘slipper coffins’ from Warka
• Conservation assessment of the Neanderthal human remains from Krapina, Croatia and its implications for the debate on the display and loan of human fossils
• Analysis and conservation of a weeping glass scarab
• The photo-ageing behaviour of selected watercolour paints under anoxic conditions
• Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt
• A Spanish Medieval altar ‘set’: new investigation and assessment of its date and manufacture
• Wooden Egyptian archery bows in the collections of the British Museum

For more information contact science@britishmuseum.org

To order a hard copy of the Technical Research Bulletin contact Archetype Publications: info@archetype.co.uk