TENBY Museum and Art Gallery's museum assistant Thelma Mort recently attended a four-day course, professional conservators in practice preventive conservation, at West Dean College in West Sussex.

The course was funded by the Federation of Museums and Art Galleries of Wales and the Friends of Tenby Museum and Art Gallery.

The course covered conservation of various museum artefacts and the methods used to prevent deterioration of the collection.

Thelma has worked at Tenby Museum for the past 13 years, starting originally as a volunteer.

She said of the course: "I learned a great deal about preventive conservation and am sure that this knowledge will benefit the long term care of the museum's collections."