about Tim Padfield

Tim Padfield


Photo by John Lee
    Born 1937 in Shanklin, England
MA in Chemistry from Oxford University
PhD from the Technical University of Denmark

Career sites:
Conservation Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds
Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
Conservation Department, National Museum of Denmark
Department of civil engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Now a freelance consultant in preventive conservation,
living in Roskilde, Denmark.
Publication list

Interests and activities:

Microclimate in museums and historic buildings
How to build with materials and techniques that give a naturally stable climate.
Historical techniques of painting and building

Writing a web book about Physics in Conservation

Other interests

Drawing, painting, making ceramics and paddling a kayak

Index of kayak related pages

e-mail: tim@padfield.dk