Day 3

1 April
First day packing, although in fact the collections team has actually been packing for one or two days a week since last March. Some of this has been muilti-purpose because as well as providing a well-packed item that can be moved safely we have also been improving storage. The delicate human skulls from Belas Knapp and elsewhere have been carefully packed into hand-carved supports of plastazote (think dense foam) so they are well-supported and then wrapped around with tissue. We have received a grant of £500 from the Renaissance programme for museums (given by the, soon to be no more and greatly missed, quango, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council) to buy 24 acid free boxes to enable us to pack some of the smaller items of weaponry from Africa and India which has also much improved how these items are stored.