Libby Melzer

Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

Bringing a fire damaged book back from the brink

A new approach to restoring parchment has saved a WW1 Book of Remembrance commemorating local fallen soldiers that was badly damaged by fire and water

Arts & Culture

Restoring one of the world’s rarest maps

Over 350 years ago, Dutch traders produced the first large-scale map of Australia, now painstakingly restored

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