Materials Conservation

The Western Australian Museum has more than 300 years of accumulated experience in the conservation of all types of materials from historic shipwrecks, gold mining equipment, cars, planes, automobiles, textiles, stone, glass, ceramics and other varying materials.

The Materials Conservation department provide specialised contract work in the conservation of shipwreck artefacts, ethnographic, paper, textiles and other materials where restoration is not performed through private conservators.

The department also has special expertise in the conservation of large technological items such as cars, trucks, machinery and horse-drawn vehicles. The department has a large capacity freeze drier and FTIR spectrophotometers and XRay flourescence equipment for the analysis of organic and inorganic matrices.

CONTACT THE WA MUSEUM MATERIALS CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT

Telephone: 9431 8499
Email: lucy.burrow@museum.wa.gov.au