Conservation departments
Builder's model of the Olympic/Titanic, shown during
conservation treatment with the funnels removed
The ship and historic models conservators are responsible for the conservation and restoration of all the models in National Museums Liverpool’s collections. This includes the collection of ship models at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, which range in size from the 20 foot long Titanic model to tiny miniatures.
They don't only look after ship models though. A project that dominated the conservators' time from 1996 until 2006 was the conservation of the vast model of Sir Edwin Lutyen's unrealised design for Liverpool's catholic cathedral. The fully restored model went on display for the first time in the exhibition The cathedral that never was at the Walker Art Gallery in 2007 and is due to be one of the key exhibits in the People's City gallery at the new Museum of Liverpool when that opens in 2010/11.
Conservator with a model of Liverpool Speke Airport made out of
Bayko bricks, from the Museum of Liverpool's collection