Anthea Phoca

Conservator, Benaki Museum Conservation Department

Anthea Phoca is a conservator in the metals, glass and organic material Conservation Department of the Benaki Museum. Her work focuses on the examination and conservation of archaeological and historical metalwork and organic bone-related materials, as well as on collaborative research on the technological study of objects in the museum collections.

She holds a degree in Conservation and Restoration from the London Guildhall University and completed postgraduate studies at West Dean College, University of Sussex. She has held conservation positions at the Science Museum in London, the Canadian Archaeological Institute in Athens and the Marathon Archaeological Museum.

Anthea finds it compelling to engage with how objects deteriorate and are preserved over time, to investigate what they are made of,  the technologies embedded in them and the histories they carry, affirming the connection between the past and the future.