The Wallace Collection

'We’ve Got Mail': the Construction, Conservation, and Repair of Mail Armour

Saturday 5th December, 2009 - Sunday 6th June, 2010

Price: Admission Free

This exhibition features historic mail from private collections never before seen in a museum setting, and will show how this complex and fascinating form of armour was originally made, in the late Middle Ages and thereafter, both in Europe and the East.Additionally, visitors will be given an insight into how mail is repaired and conserved here at the Wallace Collection, and will have a rare opportunity to examine and handle different types of mail for themselves.

a 15th-century mail-maker at work, © Stadt Nürnberg