Course Tutor - Risk Management for Collections
Care
Dr Anna Bülow apprenticed as a bookbinder in Germany before
graduating with a degree in paper conservation from the Hochschule
für Gestaltung, Kunst und Konservierung in Bern, Switzerland. She
worked as a research fellow at the Canadian Conservation Institute
in Ottawa and graduated from Queen's University in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, with an MAC in conservation research in 1999.
Specializing in preventive conservation, she completed her PhD at
De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, in 2002, and took up a
post as Head of Preservation at The National Archives, UK in 2003
where she introduced risk management for collection care. In 2013
she moved to the British Museum where she is Head of Conservation.
Her special interest is developing and implementing a collection
care strategy based on value assessment and risk management.