Last night it was the #ARA2025 ✨Gala dinner and ARA Excellence Awards!✨ Huge congratulations to P&CG chair Shirley Jones, who was awarded for her ‘Distinguished Service in Conservation’, and to Rhydian Davis who has achieved his certificate for the Archive Conservation Training Scheme! 🎉

The final session in Track B at #ARA2025: 🇳🇿 Learning from the Christchurch disasters of 2011 and 2015 by Lynn Campbell 🖥️ Facing the future with Amy Sampson and Pedro Maximo Rocha 💨 Storage Environmental Close Control Issues by Richard Aitken 🎛️ HVAC shutdown and alternative methods by Ann Attwood

B8 Panel Session at #ARA2025 is focusing on ‘Life After Hanwell’, hosted by Elizabeth Stettler, Pedro Maximo Rocha, Rhiannon Griffiths and Richard Aitken

The final day of #ARA2025 is underway, with Dr Kate Allen, Ajay Choksi, Samantha Walker and Victoria Stevens leading an interactive keynote: ‘Archives for All! A Multisensory Approach to Archive Collections’

Wednesday afternoon wrapped up with a thought provoking workshop hosted by Ann Attwood, asking ‘What is archive conservation in 2025? #ARA2025

More Track B talks on Wednesday afternoon #ARA2025: ✂️ Laura Anderson talked about her experiences on ACTS 📚 Ann-Marie Miller & Chloe Tse discussed conserving mould damaged stationary bindings 🖌️ ‘Off the Wall’ with Shirley Jones, who was talking about collaborate training with wallpaper restorers

Wednesday afternoon at #ARA2025: Track B ‘Lighting the fire: securing conservation education for the future’ with panellists Victoria Stevens, Alexandra McGuire, Jasmine Hirst and Katie Proctor🔥

Liz Stettler holding some mouldy and really smelly paste during Jiwon Jeong's talk on the mechanical strength of four traditional Asian adhesives. #ARA2025

Day 2 of #ARA2025 has kicked off with another great session of talks in the Track B: ✒️ Dr Paul Garside on ‘Treatment Decisions for Iron Gall Ink’ 🔌 HVAC group update with Amy Sampson and Sirpa Kutilainen 🖥️ Julie Bon on conservation metadata 🔗 mechanical strength of Asian adhesives by Jiwon Jeong

It’s Day 2 at #ARA2025! Great to have a conservation themed Keynote this morning from Professor Christina Young

The final session of Day 1 was the workshop ‘Building Better Homes: Rethinking enclosures for historic plans and drawings’ with Hannah Milton, Madeleine Marshall and Avery Blazemore 🗺️ #ARA2025

This afternoon we were learning to identify polyester, cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate with Mark O’Neill 🎞️🔍 #ARA2025

A fascinating series of talks by West Dean College students: 💥 Amy Randall on conservation bindings for collections of British comics 🌚 Christopher Duffy on conserving a shadow puppet collection 🧫 Jamie Chmara on the use of low-thermal, low-pressure plasma for treating active mould #ARA2025

We had great fun wielding hair dryers to create Vivak temporary display stands in a fantastic workshop delivered by Victoria Stevens #ARA2025

It’s Day 1 of the ARA Conference! #ARA2025