Objects conservator at the Royal Armouries, Leeds
Sep 30, 2021
3 minutes
Lauren Piper
HOW DID YOU GET INTO CONSERVATION AT THE ROYAL ARMOURIES?
It came about in a bit of a roundabout way to be honest! I was always interested in the past and did my undergraduate degree in archaeology, but then I felt that I wanted to pursue a career in academia and completed a PhD in Roman Egyptian funerary portraiture. At that time, I was volunteering at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and realised that my true love was working with historical objects.
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