The BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, London

The springboard for the conference was the recent restoration of the original 1840’s scheme of the polychrome decoration in the Entrance Hall of the British Museum together with the 1850’s colouring and gilding of the Reading Room in the Great Court. The conference also considered other important large-scale nineteenth-century polychromatic schemes in publicly accessible buildings in the UK, which have been restored or were in the course of investigation or conservation.

Programme
-Welcome and Introductions, Una Richards
-Building the British Museum, Marjorie Caygill
-The Restoration of the Entrance Hall of The British Museum, Dr Ian Bristow
-Investigation and Redecoration of the Reading Room in the British Museum,
Richard Ireland
-Revival of Polychromy at the British Museum, Chris Terrey
-Redecorating Knightshayes, the First Thirty Years, Hugh Meller
-Recent Investigation of the Entrance Hall of the National Gallery, London
Ian Crick & Michael Smith
-Burgess at Cardiff Castle, John Edwards
-Holmwood House, Glasgow, Una Richards and Patrick Baty
-The Cast Courts at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Jo Darrah
-Royal Holloway College, Peter Riddington
-Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Kate Crowe