A blog post by Metals Conservation student, Katherine Hernon-Johnson, recently took part in a project which invloved making a 16th/17th century padlock, artificially corroding the lock and finally practicing conservation by bringing the lock back to it's original state.

MA Metals Conservation student Caitlin has been volunteering with the Collections team, helping to further the Whose Heritage? Project; aiming to re-evaluate perceptions of the ethnographic object from West Dean's Collection and how they are displayed throughout the Historic House.

This spring term, the metals conservation students were given a whole suit of armour to clean, conserve and rebuild.

MA Conservation Studies student Carola, who specialises in Metalwork, considers how best to preserve a heavily corroded shield boss belonging to Worthing Museum.

This iron casket needed to be treated following an unfortunate incident in water, which caused it to develop a coating of rust. Graduate Diploma Conservation Studies student Carola discusses the condition and treatment of the object in this blog post.

Kate Jennings on adhesion, cohesion, and repairing a lead elephant.

Dorothy Cheng, who graduated from West Dean College's Metalwork Conservation MA last year, is on a 10-week internship with the New York City parks department's Citywide Monuments Conservation Program.