Festival of Metals
24 and 25 May 2025
Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, UK
Event organised by the Historical Metallurgy Society
Renowned researchers and craftspeople will share their skills and knowledge at Butser Ancient Farm on the weekend of 24 and 25 May 2025. Demonstrations of various metalworkers will take place while national and international researchers are presenting big-picture overviews of their findings. In-depth talks on the history of metal objects next to the creation of ‘metal art’.
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BUMA XI
24 to 28 September 2025
Quanzhou, China
The international conference on “the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys” (BUMA) is the interdisciplinary gathering of scientists, engineers, archaeologists and historians with a focus on production and use of metals, and an emphasis on cultural interactions and evolutions over time and space especially between the West and the Asian region.
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MetalEspaña2025
23 to 25 October 2025
University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
The 4th Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Metal Heritage
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SMEIA II
28 and 30 October 2025
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Mainz, Germany
The 2nd International Symposium on the Metallurgy of the European Iron Age
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