You are all experts and real masters at your craft. You have to be. At the sight of a Dürer print being put into a water bath, my heart missed some beats. To be able to do all that you achieve in conservation, needs experience and dedication

I actually did a case study for the process of conservation of the Copenhagen print. The technical and also ethical considerations of the process was insanely fascinating (from a heritage worker's perspective anyway!) Sometimes curators and conservators have to invent new conservation methods and use entirely new theoretical perspectives for each piece as they go along.

Redefining the meaning of "meticulously done". Stunning effort!

Conservation on this level is phenomenally articulated and fascinating, these extraordinary people invest in surgical precision, mastering all manner of complications and with extreme dexterity. FANTASTIC. !!

I completed four semesters or about 1 year of printing in my degree. I enjoyed it very much. I found the cleaning, repair and possibility of full restoration of this beautiful print mesmerising. Thank you

Albrecht Durer is my absolute favorite Northern Renaissance artist! Such intricate work!

Thank you for preserving our cultural history and making this interesting video about the process.

The amount of patience you have to have to work in this profession. Kudos to you all

I was AMAZED at the size of the pieces!

I love this stuff--archival research and conservation where science meets the visual arts, with everyone speaking with delightfully impeccable English accents.

I am so glad you people are out here fixing these! I love watching the videos, and my brain keeps popping up "well, learn how to do it! you need a career!" but... I think you are like doctors... I am in awe of what you do, fascinated by it, and exceptionally grateful, but I'd rather leave it to people with more confidence! Also, the music choice was absolutely wonderful.

Wow. This work the conservators do is amazing! Great video. So educational. Great footage and very well explained! I liked everything, specially the part around 7:04 when "they make their own strip of paper" WOW!!!

So good to see this level of expertise conserving both art and history. Well done to those experts.

Thank you to your wonderful team for seeing the great value in this piece as artisans and craftsmen and *NOT* as businessmen see it ($$$ only). And mostly...thank you for caring!

Brilliant! I think this would've been a good "before and after" situation.

that was great, pity allllll these restoration videos are not full length doco's

I saw the show around thirty years ago at The Met. They had his tools, the Pear Wood blocks. It was just Magical.for me!

incredibly detailed and painstaking work. Bloody well done to the guys working within the Museum!

I know doing this work means a lot to you people or you wouldn't be doing it. I hope you know how much it means to art lovers too. Humans are really the most awful creatures to ever plague the earth and the only thing that makes us viable is our creation of Art and Music and Writing. We do nothing else that would absolve us from the evil we all inflict on each other and the other living things around us. Durer's etchings are world renowned and this one, in particulaR, IS A MASTERPIECE. I also Love how technical restoration techniques are, it's mindboggling and the best use of science I can think of. Thank you all and to the 2 people who so generously donated the money to have this done, the last of the dying cultured people of the world THANK YOU.

This conservation of European history and art by the British Museum makes me proud to be British.

I feel this Durer work should be scanned and printed onto fabric or canvas that can be rolled up for transfer to other museums . The fact that it survived with acids in the paper for so long is miraculous .

I love all this stuff! Looks incredibly difficult and stressful but the results are amazing!

Thanks for putting this out, very interesting and inspiring. I was especially impressed by the thickening of the paper with drops of paper fibre slurry. I hadn't heard of that technique.

Such an educative video. Thank you for the upload. Keep 'em coming.

This was wonderful to watch!

stunning work

This was awesome! More content like this please!

This was absolutely fantastic, great information well presented. Thanks very much!

Wow...washing prints? Amazing work! Congrats...

Amazing... the processes of preservation is just 🤯

The people that work at the museums are so smart and so very patient.

I hope they make a digital copy

Amazing work!

Quite impressed by how well it cleaned up

This is absolutely amazing!

Bravo!! Wonderful documentary! More like this please, with even greater detail? Thank you, BBC!

What strikes me in in this video was that I had never actually considered how these pieces get moved. The fact that this huge, delicate piece was removed from the gallery by a team of people is strange, but fitting

I hope they take digital copies (and 3d copies where applicable) of all their works. The Museum could have a holographic roadshow setup in other museums around the world allowing visitors to virtually see their entire catalog. Most people will never travel to Britain, parts of the collection in storage may not be seen in a person's time, transportation to other museums is hard on the items ... digital not so much. Those fools drunken with religious fervour who destroyed the memory of their own forefathers also destroyed the opportunity for the rest of the world for the rest of time to appreciate and learn from the lives of their forefathers. Digital copies would ensure the essence continues on well after the original may be gone...

The Cincinnati Art Museum just finished an exhibition on Durer.. I wish this was a part of it...stunning piece.

Superb artefact and conservation efforts.

Very satisfying to see the fruits of your labours.

This work fascinates me; I would have loved to have entered this area of work had I thought of it when I was young. I’m far too old to even think about that now.

Wow this is amazing work!

Incredible work!

Fascinating work and high skills !! Thx ++

Wow, beautiful work ^_^ Thank you for protecting history.

Omg. I would hate being anyone who would mess this treasure. Awesome video!

Wow. You folks are amazing.

I'm not saying there 2 roll method isn't the best way to clean the middle but clearly they never saw honey I shrunk the kids

Hello British Museum, is there a digital version of this piece? I don't have a way to come across the pond to see it in person, and would love a close (even digital) look. Thanks!

As a maker and restorer of armour I have recently had to etch some Tassets (The steel flaps that hang from the skirt around the waist and protect the exposed area above the the leg armour). Referencing Durer has been my go-to for re creating the illusion of 2D being 3D. Clearly a master of his craft. Best wishes from an Englishman in a French forest, and of course all the mice in the workshop. 🇬🇧🧐⚒️🐭🐭🐭🐭

utterly fascinating!!!

brilliant and deeply fascinating

love the womans voice. good job to all the ladies that worked hard on this

Just wonderful...

What a great video and craftmanship. Would LOVE to work with you guys restoring stuff

Beautiful work

This is an amazing video.

A wonderful video.

I made it a POINT to attend theDurer show at the Met close to 30 years ago

imagine showing this video to the original painter to show that people still valued his work and appreciate it.

Um cliffhanger!!??

Oh my what a wonder....I would love to visit the V&A museum someday.

great job!

I would so loved to have seen before/after shots.

Amazing!

That looks so scary o_o But really cool work, would love to be able to work with preservation like this.

I need more of this

MAGNIFICENT

I was holding my breath.. then out loud said oh scary... NO way would I want your job. However THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO PROTECT OUR HISTORY!

Very nice video. Interesting

The opening shot of this video looks like a Wes Anderson film.

I saw one of these prints in the Biltmore Estate it was gorgeous

Adhesive removal is fascinating

wonderful

Impressive!

What a drawing!

amazing.

Amazing 😃

I own a copy of this - it's a beautiful piece.

Durer was a German, He was not called Herman, Albrecht was his name, And he achieved considerable fame.

thanks for fixing my drawing.

I watch these videos if i'm having trouble falling asleep...

Betapa mahal dan elegan, hasil dari buah pikiran orang. Saya merindukan penerapan metode seperti ini di Indonesia. Saya berharap di negara saya berada, selain menjunjung tinggi nilai nilai ketuhanan, juga menjunjung nilai nilai kesenian. Terimakasih

fascinating

This is magic

I how we get a followup on this project, this was fascinating.

Just fuckin killin it. Good job folks.

They even preserved his tools inside a little glass desk! He carved on Pear Wood.

Wow !

I’d love to do this work. Boring and most exhilarating!

Tombow mono zero should sponsor this video

I'm sure they made HD scans or took HD photos of each piece.

The museum's website said it's still not on display 😥

Glad to see Parcelforce weren’t involved

That's borderline sorcery. 😝 Amazing.

Dope

What was the decision!

hhhhhghghg my dream job will always be a conservator somewhere in the field of paper artifacts but every time i watch videos of conservators at work i can just. feel my back killing me lmao it certainly does not seem like the most ergonomic job

Would love to see the colored original, if it exists still.