ASMR at the Museum

March 30, 2023 11:11 AM

Watch - and listen - as museum conservation staff work on or demonstrate objects at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. For example: Conserving a Eurovision dress; Humidifying a ballet tutu; Conserving a PJ Harvey costume; Handling a puppet book; Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook; The handling and care of precious books; Massaging hands with bath rasps from Iran; Preparing a Bollywood poster for stretching; Unlocking a 17th-century strongbox. The full playlist. (MLYT).
posted by misteraitch (4 comments total)

Lovely and peaceful watcing the book-handling video
posted by Peach at 1:26 PM on March 30, 2023

Just Subscribed. Thanks for posting this.
posted by clavdivs at 2:03 PM on March 30, 2023

Conservation is so freakin' cool. I didn't go in that direction as a librarian partly because it didn't (and doesn't) rhyme with my existing strengths and partly because I seem to have a mild physical allergy to quite a bit of Old Stuff... but I have a helluva lot of respect for the people who do it.
posted by humbug at 3:48 PM on March 30, 2023 [1 favorite]

The one video that explained how book-weights work was interesting. Love the quite library atmosphere. :) Thank you for sharing this playlist with us.
posted by Fizz at 6:07 AM on March 31, 2023