{"id":9529,"date":"2018-09-13T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:30:20","slug":"conservation-stories-live-streaming-from-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/13\/conservation-stories-live-streaming-from-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Stories \u2013 live-streaming from behind-the-scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conservation and collections care staff at the Fitzwilliam Museum have been thinking about how live-streaming can help open up our collections and shed light on those working behind-the-scenes. Our first Facebook Live is scheduled for 14 September 2018, as part of Open Cambridge. In this post, I share how we\u2019ve prepared for these live videos \u2013 including a full video of a dummy run.<\/h2>\n
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Charis Millett, Fitzwilliam Museum Technician, hard at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow morning, you can join my Fitzwilliam colleagues Harry Metcalf, Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, and Charis Millett, who is one of the technical team in the Department of Antiquities, on visits behind-the-scenes to see some the work they have been doing recently.<\/p>\n

Harry and Charis have been the first brave volunteers to sign up to a spot of live-streaming about the work of our conservators, scientists and technicians.<\/p>\n

When I first put this idea to my colleagues there was, understandably, some nervousness about giving live-streaming a go as most of us haven\u2019t done it before. So, we organised a short workshop with our University Cambridge Museums (UCM) colleagues Hannah Price and Rich White (who will, respectively, be interviewing and filming on the day). Rich and Hannah prepared some notes for us. They then talked us through the basics and what works best and answered our questions. Finally, we did a dummy run so that everyone could see how it goes.<\/p>\n

This is where I come in again (literally). Having signed us up for this and knowing that I would be away at a conference on Friday 14 September, I really had to volunteer to be the guinea pig. My story was about two ancient Egyptian baby crocodile mummies, how we used X-rays to investigated them and the techniques and materials we needed to conserve and preserve them. There are some surprises inside these tiny mummies\u2026<\/p>\n

So, here is our practice run \u2018warts-and-all\u2019:<\/p>\n