Installation day is finally here | Conserving the Sherborne Cartonnage

Installation day is finally here | Conserving the Sherborne Cartonnage | Ep 6

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After four years of extensive conservation work on this amazing ancient Egyptian mummy coffin, the cartonnage is finally going on display!
Join the Museum's very own Fantastic Four; Verena, Barbara, Helene and John (open flames are not permitted in the Museum, so none of them are the Human Torch... and owing to the teams dexterity we're pretty sure none of them are the Thing either) for an update on the final work to get this incredible object ready for display and further study.
View the object now in gallery 62 at the British Museum.
The conservation and the making of this film was generously sponsored by the John S Cohen Foundation.
#AncientEgypt #Conservation #Restoration

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@user-pj1uc8ee9o 2 ай бұрын

I watched the whole series twice to take in the fantastic techniques used by the team. I visited the museum last year and made a point of seeing the cartonnage on display. Thank you for sharing the restoration work with us all.

@catzkeet4860 6 ай бұрын

So exciting.... and so lovely to see something that looked so sad to start with, looking so very beautiful now. Congratulations to the conservation staff on a job well done

@blissehrlich8908 6 ай бұрын

Great work and fantastic to have the documentary record of how it was conserved. Bravo to all involved!

@donaldauguston9740 5 ай бұрын

This is fabulous! Just think, you are now part of the history of this object and will be for another few thousands of years. Thank you for all your efforts. Take care and Happy Holidays, DA (Vancouver, WA - USA)

@davidmosford5429 6 ай бұрын

I found these videos quite profound. I am so impressed that we are still civilised enough to find funds to do this extremely skilled work. Thank-you to all who worked on the project.

@margaridamota8359 6 ай бұрын

What an abolutely amazing job, by so many incredible people, that it almost looked like magic.

@causewaykayak 6 ай бұрын

Another triumph for the talented teams at the Museum. Your videos are truly part of the displays and a bit of history in themselves. They help answer the question, "How on earth did they manage to do that ?"

@CrowSkeleton 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this series, it's been really illuminating. Always good to see public-facing science done with the kind of skilled art and quiet reverence previously lavished only on mediaeval mosques, cathedrals and the like.

@Thomas_J_Giraffamann 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for presenting this wonderful project, the conservation and the video journey. Very well done. 🙌🏼

@hellodean4 6 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this series, the way it was presented was a nice style and unique. In a way it's a shame to see it's finished, yet also good to see it's finished at the same time. I hope you make another series like it!

@465maltbie 6 ай бұрын

It was very nice to see all the problem solving behind the scenes that was needed. Looking at it now it doesnt look like it would have been that hard. No one would really understand just how hard it was if this wasnt documented. Charles

@hlogoma 6 ай бұрын

All the Pharoah's of the past would definitely had the restoration team working on their tombs ... what a ride ... it was educating, mesmirizing and daunting just watching so I cannot imagine what the team went through as each step of the way ancient Egypt stepped on their toes. Thanks.

@davidcaldecoat7414 6 ай бұрын

Awsome work that the conserverters did onthis cartonnage

@elcprof 6 ай бұрын

Cool! Congratulations, and thank-you for your dedicated work!

@spalmer4609 6 ай бұрын

This has been an extraordinary and exciting journey, one which I was pleased to watch and feel a part of. Thanks!

@rebeccam9008 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing journey. Thank you for letting us join you on it.

@sleepingsealproductions 6 ай бұрын

This has been amazing to watch and learn. Great work by the whole team. Thanks.

@jennieivins 6 ай бұрын

Yay! This was awesome! Great job everyone! And thanks for sharing this! :D I look forward to seeing what you do next time.

@Fairyfink 6 ай бұрын

This has been a wonderful project. I have followed its progress and have nothing but admiration for everyone involved in the restoration of this amazing piece. Thank you for this remarkable window into the work of the British Museum.

@resh.. 6 ай бұрын

Utterly Outstanding. An Astonishing Achievement. A huge congratulations to everyone involved.

@catherinepoloynis 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing restoration. Even I got a little emotional seeing this... what an experience it must have been, reaching back in time to collaborate with ancient artists.

@mariposahorribilis 6 ай бұрын

The chances of me ever getting to see this fascinating artefact in real life are slimmer than Japanese tissue paper. And even then, I could not see all the stages of the astounding work to restore it to its current state. So thank you to the restoration team and the documentary team for sharing this project with me.

@sariahmarier42 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! We have been waiting! ❤

@sk8mysterion 6 ай бұрын

Amazing project and result:). Also, kind regards to the gentleman in the gang starr t-shirt, nice✌️

@britishmuseum 6 ай бұрын

😁

@miranda530 3 ай бұрын

@@britishmuseum😁😁😁 Si muchas risas robando el moái no ?

@donnysandley4649 6 ай бұрын

So glad y'all were able to handle it

@richardpadma7018 6 ай бұрын

Well done❤

@thinking_toomuch 6 ай бұрын

It is finally done!😍

@transmundanium 6 ай бұрын

If I get back to the Museum some day, I will look up Sherbie

@Mikkelltheimmortal 6 ай бұрын

I found myself smiling and chuckling all the way through because I know the challenge of conservation and I'm able to appreciate what they have done. Due to the rarity of the piece the question popped into my head 'will this one day be given to the museum of Ancient Egypt in Cairo?'. But then I started to think about the working conditions at the British Museum, the history of political unrest in Egypt, the Egyptian climate, and on and on. My conclusion is that it should stay where it is for the safety and security of this extremely rare item. Plus, it's quite the personal insult to the conservation team that put in all of those painstaking hours of recreating this piece just to have someone say "thanks for fixing it for me" and buggering off with it. I say No, no they cannot have it. The time effort and literally everything that goes along with what the team accomplished belongs to them and the museum.

@lenabreijer1311 6 ай бұрын

It was legally sold by the museum in Cairo as excess stuff.

@Mikkelltheimmortal 6 ай бұрын

@@lenabreijer1311 that's good to hear.

@GusTavo-nn6ll Ай бұрын

Where is the Moai mmm?

@ondrarh 6 ай бұрын

2000 Years Later

@pablolarraguibel 3 ай бұрын

Devuelvan el Moái 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

@Tulip4nsito 3 ай бұрын

Devuelvan el Moai

@haumakaa 3 ай бұрын

Get back the Moai to Rapa Nui, pompous thieves!🗿

@keithbrisbane7775 6 ай бұрын

Hey...Hey! Put that back!

@nikodemjelonek8420 6 ай бұрын

it was sold by cairo to a private collector b4 BM got it back. before that it was rescued from a tomb that would have been flooded otherwise.

@haumakaa 3 ай бұрын

@@nikodemjelonek8420 We greatly respect you at the British Museum, as tourist business peddlers and chatterbox professionals, in London. But we need our moai back, he is our sacred friend, our lost friend, our friend stolen by a gang of sailors and Royal Navy officers in 1868. He will restore mana to our island, Rapa Nui, Easter Island. Please be decent people. You are not owners of Humanity. They are not reservoirs of our souls. Without our moai we are bodies, but without soul. We need him, he is our family