The Future for Religious Heritage: European Sustainable Religious Heritage conference was held in the university town of Lund, just 20 km from Malmö and only 60 km from Copenhagen. Sounds READ MORE
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This project is financed by the Polish National Academy of Academic Exchange, Grant Number PPN/PPO/2018/1/00004/U/00001
Short film about our research
We invite you to watch a short film in which we briefly summarize the research topics we are currently working on. The film was made thanks to the team of READ MORE
How to model the risk of damage for canvas paintings?
Today we will tell you more about a three-dimensional model of a canvas painting, which we are working on in the GRIEG project. In order for the computer model to READ MORE
Lime wood is the new comic book superhero!
Today we present a short picture story from an experiment that allows you to determine the moisture content in tested wood samples. A fragment was saved from each sample after READ MORE
Craquelure in social media
Thanks to such posts, the awareness of the problems affecting cultural heritage and the challenges we face every day, especially in the GRIEG project, is growing. Bravo!
We determined the mechanical properties of oil paint layers after 30 years of drying!
This achievement allows us to understand how craquelures – a network of cracks – are formed in paintings, but also enables the development of effective methods of protecting works of READ MORE
Kick-off meeting on the concept of safeguarding Wawel Royal Castle’s collection
We begin the new year on a high note! At the invitation of the management of the Wawel Royal Castle and the Chief Conservator, Dr. Ewa Wiłkojć, on January 5, READ MORE
Visiting Warsaw for the AChwOZ XXII conference
After a 3-year break, the AChwOZ conference – Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects – returned to its on-site form, which we welcomed with great joy! Once READ MORE
Comprehensive database of lime wood properties is already under construction
From the same trunks from which we obtained the samples to determine the critical energy release rate we had more samples cut – so-called dog-bones. We measure Young’s modulus in READ MORE
Quo Vadis, plasticizer?
Parts of Joseph Beuys’ installation art that came to our lab are covered with a layer of sticky liquid due to the migration of the PVC plasticizer and we decided READ MORE