| As part of the National Science and Technology week in March, the Mary Rose Trust treated children from secondary schools to a programme of hands-on activities including looking at real artefacts from the Mary Rose under the microscope. Leica equipment is helping conservationists to make history and science more interesting for children. Glen McConnachie: “We realised that kids really love to learn about conservation hands-on. We set up the microscopes for them; just let them change the material, slightly adjust the focus and look at what they've got on the monitor. We gave them a whole range of different materials to look at: some of the metals that have problems with surface corrosion; different types of archaeological and new leather to see how they differ as well as some wooden artefacts and a whole range of textiles, including sail cloths from the Mary Rose.
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