William Andrew Oddy (born 6 January 1942) is a British conservator who was Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum. He is notable for his publications on artefact conservation and numismatics, and for the development of the Oddy test. In 1996...
The Oddy test is a procedure created at the British Museum by conservation scientist William Andrew Oddy in 1973, in order to test materials for safety in and around art objects. Often, materials for construction and museum contexts (including...
The Elgin Marbles ( EL-ghin) are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce,...
Between 1937 and 1938, sculptures of the Elgin Marbles held by the British Museum in London were cleaned using aggressive and unauthorised methods. The sculptures originally came from the fifth-century BCE Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens and...
The keepers are heads of the various departments of the British Museum. They are professional curators and related academics. There are currently nine departments plus the Portable Antiquities Scheme that have keepers.
The conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections. Conservation activities include preventive...
The silver and gold diadem from the tomb of Philip II is one of the most valuable finds from the antechamber of the royal Macedonian tombs at Vergina, Greece.
Peter Charles van Geersdaele (3 July 1933 – 20 July 2018) was an English conservator best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. Among other work he oversaw the creation of a plaster cast of the ship impression, from which a fibreglass...
Christine Margaret Oddy (20 September 1955 – 27 July 2014) was an English politician who was the Labour Member of the European Parliament for the Midlands Central constituency from 1989 to 1999.
