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 READ MORE
Category: PVCare (EN)
The research carried out within this project is funded through the OPUS-LAP 20 programme in collaboration between NCN (National Science Center, Poland, project no. 2020/39/I/HS2/00911) and ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency, project no. N1-0241).
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 READ MORE
Chemical insight into the conservation of plastic artworks
To clean or not to clean? This is one of the most frequently asked questions by conservators who deal with artworks made of softened plastics. The essence of this conservation 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 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 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 READ MORE
We are determining the long-term properties of poly(vinyl chloride)
One of the research stages within the PVCare project are experiments determining the failure parameters of poly(vinyl chloride) objects, i.e. strain at break. This parameter depends on the deformation rate READ MORE
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
Polish-Slovenian discussion on the prevention of plastic objects
Last week together with colleagues from the Faculty of Chemistry (Jagiellonian University) we hosted a group of prof. Matija Strlič from the University of Ljubljana to exchange our experience and 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