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Conservation guidance

A person wearing blue gloves is placing a grey archival storage box labeled “April Letters Volume 3” into a custom-made protective folder with flaps on a worktable. The setting includes conservation tools and materials in the background.

Conservation packing guidance

Discover why proper archival packaging matters. Learn how to protect your documents, photographs, and artefacts.

Modern archival storage room with high-density blue mobile shelving units, mechanical hand cranks, and organised shelves containing books, folders, and archival boxes. A person is replacing a book on the shelf.

Guidance on storage and environment

Learn how to prevent deterioration with stable temperature, humidity, and light control.

A person wearing blue nitrile gloves holds an old sepia-toned photographic card showing a stone memorial plaque set into a rough stone wall. The plaque is tall and rectangular with engraved text and a carved emblem near the bottom. The card bears the photographer’s imprint “J. Simpson, 246 Union St., Aberdeen.” The scene is set on a wooden table.

Safe handling guidance for archives

Learn why proper handling of archival documents matters.

Conservation FAQs

Conservation FAQs

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Donate to our Archives

The Archive Service preserves, conserves and makes accessible over 700 years of Highland history. There is no charge to visit our Archive Centres and access the collections we hold, but High Life Highland is a charity and we rely on your donations.

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