Conserving and Restoring the Hereford Screen
Channel: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Date: 2017-04-10

In this film, the Victoria & Albert Museum's Head of Metalwork Conservation, Diana Heath, describes her involvement in the intricate conservation and restoration the Hereford Screen over a number of years. From her first encounter with the Screen in 1983, arriving in the conservation studio packed in fragments in cases stuffed with straw, to the return of the Screen to its former glory when it was installed as a whole object in the Metalwork Galleries above the main entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum, Diana Heath guides us step-by-step through the restoration process of one of the most significant pieces of nineteenth-century metalwork.