In December, we welcomed our new colleague Nefeli Avgerou, who graduated in Chemistry from the University of Crete and defended her thesis entitled Restoration of cracks in glazed clay ceramic tiles Azulejos using laser technology at the IESL-Forth Institute in Heraklion, Crete. Then, Nefeli defended her master’s thesis Protection, valorization and conservation of monuments and READ MORE
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HERIe workshop in Ottawa
Together with our colleagues from the Canadian Conservation Institute and Getty Conservation Institute, we presented the HERIe platform supporting the decision-making process during the workshop held by CCI in Ottawa! During this meeting, we discussed the mechanical, chemical, fire risk, pollution and light damage modules. We would like to thank again all participants for the vivid discussion READ MORE
Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Cultural Heritage XXIII
As every year, we could not miss the Chemical Analysis in the Protection of Cultural Heritage conference held at the University of Warsaw Center for Biological and Chemical Sciences. This time in Warsaw, our group was represented by Sergii and Sonia, who talked about the three-dimensional hygro-mechanical simulation of an image on a board with READ MORE
And… Action!
Last week Professor Bratasz presented the results of research and statistical data that confirm the possibility of significant reductions in energy consumption by museums during the discussion of the Panel “Parto of the Problem” at NEMO European Museum Conference 2023 “and… ACTION! Museums in the climate crisis.”, which took place between 9-21 November in Lahti, Finland. The main topic of READ MORE
Discussions about wood
At the end of October, we participated in the Wood Science and Technology III conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where we presented our results within the GRIEG and Preludium projects. Sergii presented a 3D model of a panel painting with an existing crack pattern, Kasia talked about the mechanical properties of tempera paints, and Magda READ MORE
Polish-Slovenian discussion vol.2
We spent the last days of September with the PVCare project partners at a meeting organized by the team of prof. Matija Strlič from the University of Ljubljana. During the second year of joint research on the degradation of objects made of plasticized poly(vinyl chloride), we proposed a plasticizer migration mechanism based on which the READ MORE
Hidden in the Romanesque walls of the monastery
Governed by such curiosity, we decided to visit the recently opened Dominican Museum, located in the 13th-century undergrounds, as well as in the early modern rooms of the Cracow monastery. A collection of stained-glass windows, richly decorated medieval floor tiles, a set of double-sided tempera panel paintings, documents and graduals on parchment are some of READ MORE
We developed a model of particulate matter deposition inside historic buildings
The fruit of several years of our colleague Marcin’s work in the form of an article has just been published in an electronic version in the renowned journal Science of the Total Environment. A theoretical model taking into account the most important – from the point of view of historic interiors – physical processes, such as READ MORE
Workshop in Valencia
The last two weeks have passed on the lectures and courses during the Conserving Canvas workshop in Valencia held by the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Cultural Heritage Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and Institute of Conservation Royal Danish Academy with support from the J. Paul Getty Trust Foundation. Among many lectures on the current practices of canvas painting support treatment, Łukasz Bratasz introduced our preventive conservation platform READ MORE
Future of the Past
This was the motto of the conference organized by the Department of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, where we presented the results of our research on cracks in paint layers, mechanical properties of paints and critical deformations of poly(vinyl chloride). The conference was accompanied by the opening of the Center for Research and READ MORE