Alexandra Baldwin
Conservator
Conservation of metal and ceramic
artifacts
Department: Conservation, Documentation
and Science
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8336
Email: conservation @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Duties include conservation of inorganic objects for loan,
exhibition, storage and publication, including the examination,
documentation, survey, and loan assessment of the collections.
Although this work covers all the collection, both historical and
archaeological Alexandra specializes in the conservation of
archaeological objects and is the Greek and Roman liaison for the
Metals Conservation section.
Alexandra graduated with distinction from UCL
in 2002 with a MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums.
Since then she has worked at the British Museum on a number of
short contracts in the Department of Conservation, Documentation
and Science and in the Department of Asia, gaining a permanent
contract as an inorganic-material conservator in 2004.
Current British Museum projects
Conservation of the Greek and Roman lead
collection
Conservation of metal objects for Galleries 19
& 20
Conservation of the Bronze Youth
Iron age cauldron hoard
Conservation of Cypriot metalwork
Previous British Museum projects
Conservation of the Gowland collection of
Kofun period Japanese metalwork
Post-excavation conservation of metal objects
from Tell es-Sa’idiyeh, Jordan (link to project page)
Conservation of metal artifacts from Gallery
41
Conservation of the collection of Etruscan
Bucchero vessels
Conservation of Qing period Chinese
porcelain
Conservation of the Montague Guest theatre token collection
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
Member of the Institute of Conservation
Publications
C. Korenberg and A. Baldwin, ‘Laser cleaning tests on
archaeological copper alloy using an Nd:YAG laser’ Laser
Chemistry Vol. 2006. Article ID 75831,7P. 2006. doi
10.1155/2006/75831
A. Baldwin, ‘The case of the writing tablets
from Nimrud’,Conservation News, 78, (May 2002)