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In pictures: Museum conservation

Conservators Tracey Sweek and Amy Drago at work at the British Museum

The British Museum is offering visitors a peek behind the scenes with the opening of a new conservation exhibition.

British Museum Conservator Amy Drago works on a marble sculpture of a goatskin clad Bacchus

Visitors to the London attraction can watch a team of conservators working on stone, metal, ceramic and organic objects.

Senior Conservator Tracey Sweek works to conserve a marble state of Aphrodite

The exhibition, called Conservation in Focus, co-incides with the museum's current exhibition on Roman emperor Hadrian.

British Museum Conservator Amy Drago works on a marble sculpture of a goatskin clad Bacchus

Early visitors were able to see conservators work on Roman copies of Greek statues of Aphrodite and Eros, Bacchus and Zeus.



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