Curator Alison Smith and conservator Natasha Duff discussing Sir John Everett Millais, Bt Hearts Are Trumps 1872 during conservation treatment Paintings

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Blog Donald Rodney, 'How the West was Won' 1982 Happiness is a toy gun

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Some materials used in conservation treatments at Tate Conservation science

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Fig.5 Salvador Dali, Forgotten Horizon, 1936. Conservation projects

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Hot waxing bronze sculpture in St Ives - Barbara Hepworth Hollow Form with Inner Form 1968 Sculpture

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Conservation tools and materials at Tate Paper

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Time-based media conservation technicians checking the alignment of an LCD projector Time-based media

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Replica of an existing frame for Linton's Temples of Paestum (date not known) Frames

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