Tag / Conservation
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‘Knowledge’ and Image-Making in Glass Lantern Slides of China
Journal Update: We are pleased to announce that the April issue of the Society’s journal is available for Fellows to view on Cambridge Core, with its print companion being received by subscribers…
22 April 2021 -
Conserving and Celebrating our Burmese Collections
Earlier this week, the Society hosted a small event to commemorate the conservation of one of its manuscripts. This is a Kammavācā, a Pali term which means “an assemblage of passages from…
4 October 2019 -
Burmese manuscript conservation success
We are delighted to announce that the project to conserve one of the Society’s Burmese manuscripts, and its rare woven braid (sazigyo), was recently completed. The conservation of these precious objects was…
26 July 2019 -
A Big Thank You to our Burmese Manuscript Supporters
The Society is delighted to announce that we have successfully raised the £1820 necessary to fund the conservation of our Burmese Kammavaca manuscript and its rare woven braid (sazigyo). These funds have…
24 May 2019 -
Help us conserve Burmese manuscript and its rare woven braid
From today, Friday 1 March 2019, the Society is beginning a short campaign to raise funds towards the conservation of one of our manuscripts. The object in question is RAS Burmese 86,…
1 March 2019 -
Upcoming RAS events: Collections Evening and lectures galore
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host another Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
21 February 2019 -
Exploring Collections
This week is Explore Your Archives Week, a national initiative to celebrate the many and diverse archives held in the UK. For our part of the celebration, we held a Collections Open…
24 November 2017 -
A Positive Impression: Conservation Students’ Work With RAS Collections
Last year, we were delighted to work with students from the Camberwell College of Arts MA in Conservation, who conserved items from our collections as part of their final projects. The conservators,…
11 August 2017 -
Collections Open Evening
Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…
25 May 2017 -
Join us for RAS Open Evening on Tuesday 23 May
The RAS is delighted to be hosting a collections-based Open Evening on Tuesday 23 May, from 6.30pm. The evening will feature a series of short talks about items from the collection, and…
11 May 2017
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