Have you ever wondered what happens when historical glass is exposed to fluctuating RH environments? Our project on ‘Crizzling of Historical Glass’ is trying to answer this question by the use of Acoustic Emission measurements on artificially aged replicas of historical glass during RH cycles. This week, doctoral student Nefeli Avgerou had the chance to READ MORE
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All the roads lead to Rome…
…so does ours! Last week, a two-day workshop on the digital tool HERIe for decision-making support in the field of preventive conservation was organised in Rome for the collection managers, educators and heritage scientists. The tool developed within several projects, including IPERION HS and recently the GoGreen project, is used by more than 3000 users READ MORE
Research visit in Vilnius
This year, our colleague Marcin Strojecki completed a year-long environmental monitoring program at the Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius. The project was done in cooperation with the POLONIKA National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad. Long-term measurements of temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, and airborne particulate matter will allow for the READ MORE
International Workshop: Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage
We would like to cordially invite you to the International Workshop: Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage that will take place on 30th Sep – 1st Oct 2025 in Gdańsk. Detailed programe and registration: https://www.mng.gda.pl/2025/07/23/warsztaty/ This workshop is developed in collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute, the National Museum in Gdańsk, and the Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface READ MORE
And the Minister’s award goes to…
… Cultural Heritage Research Group! We are pleased to announce that at this year’s Polish Science Gala, we received the Minister of Science and Higher Education award for significant achievements in implementation activities. Minister Marcin Kulasek appreciated the preventive conservation platform HERIe, which was created and developed by our group in cooperation with institutions leading READ MORE
About the damage to wooden objects
Last week, we visited Dresden to discuss the risk of mechanical damage to wooden artefacts with a group led by Prof. Michael Kaliske from the Institute of Structural Analysis Technische Universität Dresden. Besides planning joint research projects and future collaboration, it was an occasion to admire artworks at the incredible Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister located in Zwinger. The relation from READ MORE
Migration of plasticisers in PVC artefacts
The latest article of the PVCare project: Preventive conservation strategies for poly(vinyl chloride) objects on the migration of plasticisers in heritage objects made of PVC has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management. The publication was created in cooperation between our group and scientists from the NanoBiomedical Center of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań READ MORE
Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects XXIV
Last week, Marcin Bury and Sonia Bujok presented their results at the XXIV conference Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Heritage Objects (https://analizazabytkow.pl/) organised by the Biological and Chemical Research Centre at the University of Warsaw.Marcin shared the results of his latest publication on the development of cracks in canvas paintings induced by changes in READ MORE
HERIe workshops overseas again!
The November workshops of the preventive conservation platform HERIe began with a sentimental journey of our group leader to Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and continued at the Getty Conservation Institute, where we discussed the use of digital tools for risk assessment of heritage objects with representatives of GLAM institutions from the USA. The READ MORE
Development of craquelure patterns in canvas paintings
How do corner cracks in canvas paintings are formed and how do they differ from cracks in the pictorial layer in the central part of the painting? What is the risk of crack formation due to drops in relative humidity? Find the answers in the latest article Development of craquelure patterns in paintings on canvas READ MORE