{"id":13437,"date":"2016-08-10T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2016-08-10T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:41:38","slug":"after-roof-cleaning-sunlight-destroying-priceless-specimens-at-oxford-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13437","title":{"rendered":"After roof cleaning: Sunlight &#8216;destroying&#8217; priceless specimens at Oxford Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Telegraph has reported on a case of building restoration where the cleaning of dilapidated glass roof of the city\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/7429726\/Discovering-the-Natural-History-Museum.html\">Natural History Museum<\/a>, as part of its \u00a32m restoration, the cleaning of the glass\u00a0 roof has let in so much sunlight that the museum\u2019s priceless specimens are suffering \u2018rapid and irreversible\u2019 damage.<\/h3>\n<p><u><\/u>The Telegraph writes:<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/0\/university-of-oxford-guide\/\">Oxford University<\/a> unveiled the results of a \u00a32 million project to restore the dilapidated glass roof of the city\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/7429726\/Discovering-the-Natural-History-Museum.html\">Natural History Museum<\/a>, the curators claimed they had secured the future of the magnificent Victorian institution for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>But now university authorities have been forced back to the drawing board, after admitting that removing 150 years of dirt from the glass tiles that line the building\u2019s roof has let in so much sunlight that the museum\u2019s priceless specimens are suffering \u2018rapid and irreversible\u2019 damage.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/27\/sunlight-destroying-priceless-specimens-after-oxford-universitys\/\" target=\"_blank\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Alison Richmond\u2019s, ICON CEO\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icon.org.uk\/news\/response-priceless-oxford-exhibits-fry-under-clean-glass-roof?utm_content=buffer789e9&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has reported on a case of building restoration where the cleaning of dilapidated glass roof of the city\u2019s Natural History Museum, as part of its \u00a32m restoration, the cleaning of the glass\u00a0 roof has let in so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13438,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}