As a Conservator here at the Australian Museum, I will be sharing my journey with you as I begin the conservation treatment of these four Ancient Egyptian cartonnage coverings. In this special AM series of blogs, I will take you through this project on how the Collection Care and Conservation (CC&C) team will assess and treat these cartonnage coverings to enable them to go on display in the future. What may be less well-known is that many mummies had coverings on them, and that the Australian Museum is lucky enough to have four pieces of these coverings in their collection. Centuries after mummies started to be excavated, Ancient Egyptian mummies still hold great intrigue and wonder around the world. I think it is safe to say that most people know what a mummy is – most of us envisage a colourful sarcophagus from Ancient Egypt. Melissa Holt, project conservator at the Australian Museum, tells us about the conservation treatment of four Ancient Egyptian Cartonnage coverings, including three masks! Read part one, in this special AM blog series.

Gold mask of egyptian mummy tuc