Modern Materials

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Icon's Modern Materials Group brings together specialists interested in the conservation and preservation of modern materials and digital content
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Icon's Modern Materials Network brings together specialists interested in the conservation and preservation of modern materials and digital content
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Our committee
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Challenges of the Modern Object
No material is too modern!
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My Museum of Plastics
A series of investigations into the materials in our homes
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Group members' area
Upcoming meetings and committee documents - access for network members only
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Conserving modern materials
A collection of website resources
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Modern materials resources
06 Apr 2023
Plastics and Surrealism at the Design Museum
15 Apr 2021
Plastics Conservation: Comptometers and Patents
Article
26 Jun 2020
My Museum of Plastics: Having a Breakdown
Article
16 Jun 2020
My Museum of Plastics: Tableware tales
Article
12 May 2020
My Museum of Plastics: Who’s looking at you?
Article
Upcoming events
External
12 – 13 May 2026
Identification & Preservation of Plastics in Collections
The course is aimed at anyone with an interest in plastics in the context of museum and gallery collections
Training course
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