Dear all,

I thought you might be interested in this very short film, made for us by Trina Mckendrick, charting the painstaking conservation of a large wall map, discovered in a chimney in a building in the North-East of Scotland. A version was shown at the Map Curators' Group of the British Cartographic Society's annual workshop, held here in Edinburgh.
One of our conservators, Claire Thomson undertook this amazing task. She assures me that progress was not always as smooth as the film suggests!

The Chimney Map:
https://youtu.be/g6Bn3xBGfWY

kind regards

Paula

Paula Williams
Curator | Maps, Mountaineering & Polar Collections

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