The work of the Central Museum Warehouse team is progressing. This meeting aimed to develop fire prevention and response guidelines for museums and the storage facility. These issues were discussed at the Research and Scientific Center for Fire Protection named after Tuszkowski, with the participation of firefighting experts. Our group was again represented by Prof. READ MORE
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Meeting of the NIMOZ team of experts regarding the Central Warehouse of Museum Collections
A group of experts from the National Institute of Museology and Collection Protection (NIMOZ) gathered in Warsaw to discuss the construction of the Central Warehouse of Museum Collections. It is to serve as a model for a safe cultural heritage storage for other museums from Poland and around the world. At the meeting, our group was READ MORE
We are happy to welcome a new team member: Lindsay Oakley from Northwestern University
We are pleased to announce that our team is growing! Our new colleague, Lindsay Oakley comes to us from Northwestern Univeristy near Chicago and will enrich The Cultural Heritage Research group with her knowledge of chemical processes relevant to museum collections. Lindsay obtained her PhD in Materials Science in 2017 where she developed a computational READ MORE
HERIe: team meeting at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles
During the first week of September Dr. hab. Łukasz Bratasz and Dr. Marcin Strojecki traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Dr. hab. Michał Łukomski, a member of the Cultural Heritage Research group, who currently heads the Preventive Conservation group at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). Other participants of the talks were: Dr. Lindsay Oakley, READ MORE
Our team is growing: Magdalena Soboń joins the SyMBoL project
The Cultural Heritage Research Group is gaining a new member. Magdalena Soboń will work in a technical research position. She will support the team as a part of project SyMBol, which is focused on developing 3D models of wooden sculptures to assess the risk of crack propagation during changes in temperature or relative humidity. Magdalena READ MORE
Dr. Kamil Kutorasiński on a new career path
After 3 months of cooperation Dr. Kamil Kutorasiński will be leaving the group in order to develop his scientific career on The Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at AGH University. In this short time Kamil proved to be a talented scientist, and therefore it is not easy for us to say goodbye to READ MORE
CollectionCare project: The survey of the craquelure patterns in canvas paintings
As a part of CollectionCare project, in which we are involved, the survey of the craquelure patterns in canvas paintings was performed in the Yale Center of British Art. Our partners in a study were Mark Aronson and Eric Stegmaier. The aim of a survey was to statistically evaluate various types of patterns of craquelure READ MORE
Jerzy Haber Institute gets invitation to join CollectionCare project
Our group’s parent organization, Jerzy Haber Institute, got invitation to join international consortium of research institutions, museums and professionals working on preventive conservation. CollectionCare is a project aimed to deliver innovative and affordable service for the preventive conservation monitoring, which so far is a complex and expensive problem due to the vast heterogeneity of artefacts’ READ MORE
Dominican Friars express gratitude for developing archive design concepts to preserve the Order’s collections
At the request of the Polish Province of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Friars), Dr. hab. Łukasz Bratasz and Prof. Dr. hab. Roman Kozłowski consulted on designs for the new headquarters of the Archives of the Polish Dominican Province in Lublin. Our specialists participated in discussions with architects to select the appropriate location for new READ MORE
Dürer’s „Saint Jerome Penitent” examined with Digital Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry method
On May 14th, two of our professionals, Dr. Leszek Krzemień and Dr. Marcin Strojecki, contributed their knowledge and skills to evaluate the condition and necessary conservation treatments for Hans Dürer’s painting from 1526, “Saint Jerome Penitent”. The painting, made using a tempera technique on wood, belongs to the collections of the National Museum in Krakow. READ MORE