The CSI: Sittingbourne lab is holding a special exhibition, 10:00am - 4:00pm, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for the first two weeks in April (1-11th) + Saturday April 5th. Visitors are welcome to come see conservation in action and talk to us about new discoveries on finds from Lyminge, the Sarre/Bifrons assemblage, (normally stored at Maidstone … Continue reading Exciting News!
there’s more, almost forgot…
... Ryan agreed his ‘volunteer job title’ : CSI Runner ! Ryan has been helping off and on since we first started fitting out the shop. This week he visited the library for us to see if they can locate Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, by Penelope Walton Rogers (out of print and … Continue reading there’s more, almost forgot…
Highlights form this week’s visitors/activities
...a woman who could neither read/write or tell left from right but delighted in seeing what we were doing and discussing lots of our displays and microscope work, because "one never knows what there is to discover !! " … a teenager's community carer/enabler and his charge stumbled upon us and spent quite a while … Continue reading Highlights form this week’s visitors/activities
CSI: Open again!
The CSI lab is currently open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. We are now finishing off the last items from the first half of the cemetary and hoping to start the other half if our fundraising is successful. Please come along to see how we're getting on and spread the word!
Will work for free
Just a quick post to let you all know about an interesting blog called, 'Will Work For Free'. "I created this in order to share with the world my passion for nonprofits and volunteerism. Here you can find personal anecdotes from my volunteer work, ways that millennials and others can get more involved, and my … Continue reading Will work for free
Calling all young volunteers
CSI: Sittingbourne has partnered with Vinspired, the local arm of the national youth volunteering scheme, and is offering full and part time volunteer placements for a lab assistant and fund-raiser/market developer. If we're able to get help in these areas we should be able to re-open, and keep open, the lab and exhibition for the … Continue reading Calling all young volunteers
Conservation matters in wales 2010
As promised last week here is a short review on the small conference held at the Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures as was sat right at the front and was listening intently to everyone (honest...), but I did manage to steal one picture from Nigel Blackamore's Twitter (also a … Continue reading Conservation matters in wales 2010
One week to go…
Just one week to go until the most important conservation conference of the year... kind of. 'CSI: Sittingbourne - The Value of Volunteers' is to be presented at the Conservation Matters in Wales conference, 'Conservation: Added Value', at the Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery in Aberdare, South Wales. This is a one day conference organised … Continue reading One week to go…
Another benefit of volunteers
This is just to notify anyone who doesn't know about the exciting volunteer project at the Museum of London and a brief article featured in this month's ICON News (November 2010 - issue 31). The museum has run a number of volunteer programmes during the past 8 years since its archive (LAARC) opened to the public in … Continue reading Another benefit of volunteers
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