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2009
Journal article
Tales from the tent
Stable, Charles
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2012
Journal article
Maximum Intervention: Renewal of a Māori Waka by George Nuku and National Museums Scotland
National Museums Scotland (NMS) has in its collections a Māori war canoe (A.UC.767) or Waka Taua from New Zealand. The Waka had been held in the Museum stores for many years and due to its incompleteness and poor state of repair had not been on public display. It was proposed...Stable, Charles
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2019
Journal article
The Old State Drawing Room from Hamilton Palace at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
This article examines one of the most important rooms from Scotland’s largest and greatest private residence, which has been transferred from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and installed as a focal point in the centre of one of the ten new galleries in the National Museum of Scotland,...Evans, Godfrey ; Stable, Charles
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2021
Journal article
Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: consideration of the legacy, ethics and aesthetics of previously restored Egyptian artefacts
National Museums Scotland’s (NMS) new permanent Ancient Egypt gallery project at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh gave an opportunity for current conservators and curators to collaboratively assess and evaluate historic conservation and restoration treatments. Restoration had been an integral element in transforming archaeological fragments from Egypt into museum...Stable, Charles ; Maitland, Margaret ; De Bellaigue, Diana ; Potter, Daniel ; Bryan, Bethan …
ethics, intervention, Egyptology, and history of conservation