Cleaning and preserving old books from the Library | ASMR
Join Conservator Eloïse Lovejoy for a little ASMR at the Museum.
Put your headphones on and listen as Eloïse gently cares for a copy of Treatise on Zoology, published in Paris in 1884, which is held in the Library and Archives collection.
Our oldest natural history book was published in 1469 - though it was written much earlier by Pliny the Elder!
You can flip through the pages of our first edition copy of Historia Naturalis online: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2...
Search our Library and Archives here: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/dep...
0:00 Intro
01:21 Brushing dust
02:18 Cleaning with a chemical sponge
3:25 Cutting the sponge
3:44 Tidying the space
4:32 Making a paper wrapper
5:56 Cutting the paper
6:51 Folding the paper
11:27 Rounding the corners of the paper
12:40 Marking and cutting slots for cotton tape ties
16:30 Making cotton ties
18:54 Wrapping the paper wrapper onto the book
22:19 Tying the cotton ties
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Wow! Just Wow! I have seen books in museums like this before but this is the best tutorial on the know-how!! I have some immensely precious first, second and third editions of Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley etc., in my natural history library. And now I know how to preserve them with love! Thank you very much indeed Natural History Museum!
Something very satisfying in watching this : )
That was wonderful. I learned a lot from your video, such as wrapping a book for tying and more. You have beautiful nails btw! An inspiration for this old nail biter! I worked in school libraries sometimes and always had a penchant for covering books to look after them. I still cover my new book covers carefully with plastic. One niggle...the sound at the beginning was very muted and hard to understand. Thanks for the instructional video.
Thanks for such a lovely comment, so glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for your feedback, we hope you enjoy the rest of our ASMR videos 😄
Cool.