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
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
Happy birthday x-rays!
Seeing the Google doodle today I see that x-rays are 115 years old today. Happy birthday x-rays! X-rays can be really useful for conservators working with most any type of material, but particularly archaeological finds, and they have been used extensively during the work in the CSI: lab. You can read more about the use … Continue reading Happy birthday x-rays!
Opening times
We will only be open on Fridays & Saturdays until further notice, but definitely through November 2010. We'd like to apologise for anyone planning to visit at different times.
Digging for Britain (2)
This has been mentioned briefly on this blog (...and should have had a bit more coverage at the time!) but CSI: Sittingbourne appeared on the four-part BBC2 series 'Digging for Britain' with Dr. Alice Roberts. It was a really great bit of coverage for the project and hopefully enligtened a few people to whats going … Continue reading Digging for Britain (2)
Digging for Britain
Coming up on BBC2 in the next few weeks will be the appearance of CSI: Sittingbourne. Digging for Britain, hosted by Dr. Alice Roberts of Time Team, Coast, Extreme Archaeology and Wild Swimming fame, follows a year of archaeology in Britain, joining up the results of digs and investigations from all over the country. CSI: should … Continue reading Digging for Britain
CSI: LEASE EXTENDED
The lease for the premises of CSI: Sittingbourne (located in The Forum) has been extended by owners Tesco. If other funding can be gained then the CSI: lab should be around for at least another 6 months, enough time to complete the other half of the finds from the site. It also gives all those visitors that … Continue reading CSI: LEASE EXTENDED
The Guardian
Finally we have been featured in The Guardian! The article, written by Maev Kennedy, was featured on Monday 16th August. It has provided a nice bit of publicity for the CSI: project and has sparked a bit of debate on the subject. Have a look at the comments here and add your two penneth! You can … Continue reading The Guardian
a bit of a progress report…
Stats... The volunteers for this project have been of great help and have showed good progress so far. They have gained in confidence along the way and the results they are producing are brilliant. This section highlights the background and the type of people that are volunteering, or who have volunteered, in the past months. … Continue reading a bit of a progress report…
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