Two important conferences, CollectionCare and ACHwOZ, already behind us!

Both meetings gathered a really large group of listeners, each over 150 people!

The CollectionCare conference, organized by the team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), was a summary of over two first years of the project. The three days of the conference were filled with presentations grouped into the following thematic blocks:

1. Collections’ needs and challenges

2. Predictive analysis of cultural objects and preventive conservation

3. Connectivity, sensing, and cloud computing technologies

The participants of the meeting were both conservators and managers of museums and collections, heritage scientists and representatives of companies producing sensors and software for the environmental control in museums.

We listened to some really interesting presentations, from the analysis of the stresses in a single cellulose fiber and the consequent degradation of the paper, to proposals for solutions reducing energy consumption in Belgian collections.

We also had the opportunity to present our speeches, mainly focusing on the mechanical properties of paints. The presented results came from our projects CollectionCare, GRIEG, SyMBoL, PRELUDIUM and NAWA:

– Arkadiusz Janas et al., Mechanical properties of materials constituting canvas paintings,

– Katarzyna Poznańska et al., Mechanical properties of tempera paints,

– Magdalena Soboń, Łukasz Bratasz, Impact of dynamic environmental variations on massive wooden cultural objects,

– Łukasz Bratasz, Presentation of HERIe.

AChwOZ (Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects) was already the 21st meeting bringing together Polish scientists, mostly chemists, interested in heritage, its conservation and preventive conservation.

The conference was opened by a lecture by Prof. Dr Iry Rabin Transition from the Carbon inks of Antiquity to the Iron-gall inks of the Middle Ages. The two days were filled with equally interesting presentations, so it was really difficult to participate in the two conferences at the same time.

Our group presented the following short communications resulting from research for the GRIEG project, being also a part of NAWA project:

– Katarzyna Poznańska et al., Mechanical properties of tempera paints,

– Sergii Antropov, The use of a microscopic scanner for crack pattern analysis.

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