The conservators' workshop
Welcome to the conservators' blog, where you can follow the work of preparing all sorts of specimens for the new museum.
In a couple of years, the Natural History Museum Denmark's new building will open in the Botanical Garden in the heart of Copenhagen. Behind the scenes, the museum's conservators are preserving thousands of specimens so they can be a part of the the exhibitions in the new museum.
Together with the museum's exhibition department, the conservators will install more than 3,000 specimens from the collections in the new exhibitions. The specimens come in all shapes and sizes – from the 17-metre-long dinosaur Misty to the smallest insect.
Until the opening, the conservators will share photos and stories from their workshop and the new exhibition halls, where the work of building a new museum from scratch is in full swing.
