Season One
- S01E01: Demographics
Who are conservators, anyway? - S01E02: Human Remains
Looking after the dead - S01E03: Visible Storage
Museum stores but make them pretty - S01E04: Glove Up!
Use of nitrile gloves and other types of gloves in conservation and collections care - S01E05: Emerging Professionals
What’s it like being an emerging conservation professional (in 2017)? - S01E06: Public Image
How people think of conservators and how we’re portrayed in pop culture and media - S01E07: Extreme Conservation
Conservation in extreme heat and extreme cold - S01E08: Social Media
How we can use social media as professional tools (back in 2017) - S01E09: Museum Pi
How the Raspberry Pi can be a tool for conservators and museum professionals - S01E10: Salvage
How to save museum objects in the aftermath of a disaster or emergency
Season Two
- S02E01: Danger, Danger!
Hazards in collections that conservators might encounter - S02E02: Education and Learning
How do you become a conservator, anyway? - S02E03: Freelancing
Tips for being a freelancer - S02E04: Emerging Professionals 2
More stories about entering the field - S02E05: Modern Materials
Working with plastics in collections and other newer materials - S02E06: Replicas, Surrogates, and Digitisation
Working with copies and digitising cultural heritage - S02E07: Communicating Conservation
Talking about conservation to colleagues, media, and more - S02E08: Food
Food in collections and food in museums - S02E09: Conferencing
How to get the most out of a conference - S02E10: Christmas Special
Season Three
- S03E01: Taking a Stand
Political collections and social justice in museums - S03E02: Professional Bodies
Who are the professional bodies and organisations for conservators? - S03E03: Churches
Working in church buildings and with ecclesiastical heritage - S03E04: Looking After Your Conservator
Well-being at work and taking care of our physical health - S03E05: International Friends
Greetings from around the world! - S03E06: Listen Up!
Being effective communicators and influencing decision makers - S03E07: Funding
The (2018) funding landscape for conservators and museums - S03E08: Road Trip Special
The C Word goes to Cambridge for a museum grand re-opening!
Season Four
- S04E01: Going Green
Sustainability in conservation practice - S04E02: Parenthood
Conservators with offspring – what’s it like? - S04E03: Costume Mounting
Mannequins and supporting historical costume well - S04E04: Military Collections
Working with weapons and militaria - S04E05: Natural History
Working with natural science collections - S04E06: Smut
Naughty collections of all sorts! NSFW but it is work, we swear. - S04E07: Tools Galore!
What’s your favourite tool? - S04E08: Christmas Special
Season Five
- S05E01: Wet Stuff
Waterlogged materials of all sorts - S05E02: Couriering
When objects and artworks need to be couriered – what happens? - S05E03: Contemporary Art
Working with contemporary artworks - S05E04: Working with Communities
Collaborative working and co-curation - S05E05: Portfolio Extravaganza
How to create a conservation portfolio - S05E06: Touchy Feely
Touch tours, supporting partially sighted visitors, and the value of touch - S05E07: Publishing Your Work
How to get published - S05E08: #Icon19 Conference Special
Season Six
- S06E01: Conservation on a Budget
Money-saving tips for collections care - S06E02: Papers, Please!
Archival and paper collections explored - S06E03: The One with the Arduino
How the Arduino can be a useful tool for conservators - S06E04: Diversity
Why we need a diverse profession and why our workforce (so far) isn’t - S06E05: Thinking Big
Working with industrial and large scale collections - S06E06: Knowing Not To
When to step away and when to ask for help - S06E07: Side Hustle
The things we do to stay alive in an underpaid field - S06E08: Christmas Special
Season Seven
- S07E01: Working From Home
Conservation and remote working - S07E02: Frightful Beasts and Where to Find Them
Integrated pest management and things that eat collections - S07E03: For Science!
Analysis in conservation - S07E04: Working with Techs
Collaborating with art technicians - S07E05: Mind the Gap
Gap-filling in conservation - S07E06: Let There Be Light
Lighting in museums and the effects of light - S07E07: Focus on Photos
Photographic conservation - S07E08: Returning To Work
Coming back after lockdown
Season Eight
- S08E01: Lights, Camera, Action!
Working with film crews in historic settings - S08E02: Testing New Materials
How do we check our materials? - S08E03: Returning Cultural Objects
Restitution, repatriation, and returning things to source communities - S08E04: Halloween special
- S08E05: Supporting the Sector
What are professional bodies doing to help a sector in crisis in 2020? - S08E06: Learning and Teaching Remotely, Part 1
How do we access CPD and training remotely? - S08E07: Learning and Teaching Remotely, Part 2
How do we teach conservation in a pandemic? - S08E08: Christmas Special
Season Nine
- S09E01: Working with Front of House
Collaborating with FoH on collections care - S09E02: Extreme Storage
When we store historical artefacts in mines and airless spaces - S09E03: Seeing and Hearing Conservators
How to get conservators in the media spotlight - S09E04: Environmental Monitoring
How we keep track of our temp and RH - S09E05: Dynamic Objects
Working with things meant to move - S09E06: Leather
Working with objects made from leather - S09E07: Bolstering Business
Business savvy tips and tricks for enterprising conservators - S09E08: Dyes in Conservation
How do we use dyes?
Season Ten
- S10E01: One Year On
A pandemic review - S10E02: Working with Curators
Collaborating with our curatorial friends - S10E03: Career Changes
What did we all do BEFORE conservation? - S10E04: Halloween Special
- S10E05: Aches and Pains
Looking after our bodies at the workbench - S10E06: Metals (Part 1)
Working with metals - S10E07: Rationalisation and Disposal
When we just have to get rid of stuff - S10E08: Christmas Special
Season Eleven
- S11E01: Conservation and Conflict
War, conflict, and how to preserve heritage in immediate danger - S11E02: Standards in Conservation
What are conservation standards and who sets them? - S11E03: Working with Learning
Collaborating with education and learning staff - S11E04: Building a Business
Starting and growing a company - S11E05: Metals (Part 2)
Working with metals - S11E06: #IconReachOut22 Conference Special
- S11E07: Zero Hour Contracts
A common work practice scrutinised - S11E08: Manx Road Trip Special
We go to the Isle of Man for lots of heritage adventures!
Season Twelve
- S12E01: Job Interviews
How to ace an interview - S12E02: Cost of Living Special
Can we afford to work in this field anymore? - S12E03: Gemstones and Minerals
Working with precious materials - S12E04: Halloween Special
- S12E05: Disability in Conservation
Talking about inclusion, access, and our disabilities - S12E06: Time Management
How do we manage our time? - S12E07: Redevelopments
When museums revamp - S12E08: Christmas Special
Season Thirteen
- S13E01: Building Communities
Bringing conservators together, both online and offline - S13E02: Accreditation (Part 1: The Longest Journey)
How we’ve found the journey so far - S13E03: Conflict and Collections
When collections stir up emotions - S13E04: Working with Adult Learning
Collaborating with outreach efforts and adult learning programmes - S13E05: Being in Business
What’s it like running your own business? - S13E06: Conference Takeover Special
Kloe, Nerys and Jane go to a UGM conference together - S13E07: Time-Based Media
Working with time-based media in a fast paced world - S13E08: Paintings Conservation
Working with paintings
Bonus Episodes
- Conservation in the Anthropocene (conference special for the AICCM Book, Paper & Photographic Materials Symposium in 2018)
- Diversity Discussion Panel for Icon (2019)
- The Pandemic Special (March 2020)
- The Announcement (2023)