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Free Public Heritage Science Event Great Court, British Museum Sat 23 March 11:00 – 16:00

Ever wondered what causes the evocative smell of old books?  What do smelly plastics tell us about their identity, stability or history?  Can we ‘smell’ objects to find out more about their previous pest control treatments?  Heritage Smells! an interdisciplinary research consortium is seeking to answer these, and other similar, questions. 

Scientists, conservators and archivists will be running displays, fun science experiments and demonstrating instrumentation used to ‘smell’ objects during ‘Zoom In: a closer look at science’, the British Museum’s National Science and Engineering Week event.  This free public event aims to have fun by playing with our sense of smell,  but also link the chemical smell to objects allowing us to better inform custodians of collections about objects in a truly non-invasive way.

The science event is aimed at children and adults, come along and join the fun. 

See http://www.strath.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/lorrainegibson/ for more details.

Icon Conference 2013: Positive Futures in an Uncertain World In partnership with the University of Glasgow
April 10-12, 2013, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Deadline for submission of papers to special conference issue of the Journal has been extended to 4th April 2013.

Publication
Conference papers will not be published but authors are invited to submit their papers for consideration for publication in the Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation.

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