Victoria Purewal - OMC Course Leader
Victoria worked at the National Museum of Wales for 24 years and
recently left to start her own practice. She is an accredited
conservator, undertaking work relating to natural science material
but mainly botanical collections, specialising in conserving
reconstruction of large un-mounted specimens, of note the
collection of Alfred Russell Wallace's Palms. She also specialise
in the digitisation and conservation of vascular and cryptogamic
material, especially bound herbarium volumes. She also conserves
wax models, glass plate negatives, timber specimens, materia
medica, economic material, archives prints and drawings. She has an
MSc and PhD in conservation science and devised a novel method of
identifying historic mercury contamination on collections.