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'Please use the postcode’: navigating the past, present, and future conservation needs of the Hereford Mappa Mundi


Oxford, UK
Organisation: The Oxford Seminars in Cartography
A lecture by Andrew Honey, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and Conservation Inspector to the Mappa Mundi Trust.
This talk will examine the conservation needs of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, chart the effects of some of the historic repairs and cleaning campaigns carried out in the past, explain the ingenious methods used to mount the map, and outline future conservation needs, as well as presenting some discoveries from recent conservation inspections.
Also online via Zoom.
Venue: Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
Time schedule: 16.30-18.00
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