If only conservation treatments actually happened so quickly! Watch this time short lapse video of the National Park Service’s conservation treatment of Colonel William Prescott at Boston’s Bunker Hill Monument in June 2011.
Over the course of 4 days, National Park Service conservators cleaned the bronze statue with water and an anionic detergent (Step 1); applied protective coatings of hot wax (Step 2); and buffed the hot wax into the bronze with clean white cotton cloths (Step 3). For more information, please contact Boston National Historical Park. Video by Saving Daylight Productions