Thousands of nationally and internationally significant manuscripts and collections have been conserved with our help since NMCT was founded in 1991 and are now accessible to all. Many of the projects we fund have a training benefit, for example by providing valuable experience for early-career conservators through conservation internships.
In our latest annual report you can read about the manuscripts and collections conserved with our help in 2024. They include designs for Minton’s majolica ware, preserved in Stoke-on-Trent; Thomas Mawson's plans for the gardens at Curwen Woods; papers from Conway Hall that shed light on leading Victorian freethought radicals (image above); and the archive of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Then there's the letter from Joseph Banks about a fruitless expedition to find the Northeast Passage - during which a young Horatio Nelson was famously reprimanded for trying (and failing) to catch a Polar Bear.
Download our 2024 Annual Report here
