Conserving Messel's magic for future generations

Oliver Messel photographed by Angus McBean Harvard University Theatre Collection
8 September 2016
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection has received £73,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to catalogue, conserve and ultimately make available to the public, the personal archive of one of the last century's foremost theatrical designers, Oliver Messel (1904-1978).
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The University of Bristol Theatre Collection would like to thank the organisations and individuals that have provided funding for this project. Generous support has also been received from The Linbury Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, National Manuscripts Conservation Trust and the Friends of the Theatre Collection.