Partner of our projects, Dr. Aleksandra Hola, recalls participation in the Getty Foundation program

We encourage you to read the interview with Dr. Aleksandra Hola, an art conservator and partner in the GRIEG project, published by Getty. In the interview titled “How to Save a Disappearing Profession”, Aleksandra talks about participating in the Panel Painting Initiative, the Getty Foundation program aimed at educating a new generation of panel painting READ MORE

First measurements in the PVCare project on the objects from the CRICOTEKA collection

As part of the project “Preventive Conservation Strategies for Poly (vinyl chloride) Objects – PVCare”, we were asked to perform a microscopic scan of objects belonging to the CRICOTEKA collection. CRICOTEKA is actually the the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, who was a Polish painter, director, stage designer and art READ MORE

We publish the developed method of risk of fracture analysis in wooden sculptures

Would you have thought about the importance of a heating strategy not only in museums, but also in historic interiors of temples, palaces and manors? If you plan to organize a wedding, concert or other commercial event in a historic interior and you care about preserving the wooden sculptures decorating it, we invite you to READ MORE

We take part in Gordon Research Conference 2022: Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research

What a week! Surrounded by the Bernese Alps, the Swiss Les Diablerets was this weekend not only a stop on the Tour de France, but more importantly, hosted the Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research, preceded by the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for PhD students and young research scientists. During the READ MORE

GRIEG Project: Panel of Experts in the shade of Brunelleschi’s Dome

At the halfway point of the GRIEG project, we reached out to the authorities in the field of conservation and heritage science, who were invited to a mid-term meeting in Florence. The choice of the place was not accidental – this is where the famous conservation school is located, Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), which READ MORE

Polentransport 2022? Joseph Beuys’ art arrives in our laboratory

Priceless contemporary art objects that arrived in our lab are courtesy of Nanke Schellmann, an art conservator and associate of Schellmann Art gallery in Munich! We are talking about fine art objects in editions (multiples) by Joseph Beuys, a German artist, sculptor and art theorist, made of PVC. The objects are heavily degraded (you can READ MORE

Measurements of lime wood properties

We started laboratory measurements of the mechanical properties of lime wood. Check out the photo report of our first attempts and small successes (the crack growth takes place where expected!) The research is a part of the Preludium 19 project, project number 2020/37/N/HS2/01727/2, financed by the National Science Center, Poland.

Promoting microscopic craquelure scans at a conference of leading British institutions

A large part of the conference is again held in a stationary form, but the online form, additionally arranged in a fun and accessible computer game convention, was a perfect fit for the conference entitled Computational approaches for technical imaging in cultural heritage. The conference was part of the ARTICT project | Art Through the READ MORE

Extended application time for a position of a Research Assistant in our new project – PVCare!

You are welcome to join our group in Kraków to pursue with us PVCare project! The application period has been extended to May 31, 2022. We are looking for a mechanical engineer, material scientist, physicist or mathematician to help us unravel the link between chemical degradation and mechanical damage of plastics and develop preventive conservation READ MORE