Research in collaboration with University College London and Historic Environment Scotland, suggests citizen heritage science as an effective method to gather reliable data for monitoring and documenting heritage sites. For large heritage organisations the monitoring and documentation of sites presents considerable challenges; continual monitoring of smaller, unstaffed, and more remote sites is often not practical. …
A new publication from researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, including Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar; Proteomics and Metabolomics Research Program, Basic Research Department, Children’s Cancer Hospital, Cairo, Egypt; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt; and The Scientific Research Department, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, …
The 1st #HSAcademy Lecture “Current Topics in Heritage Science” will be delivered on September 15, 3 pm (CEST). Katrien Keune (Rijksmuseum, Netherlands) will discuss the reconstruction and model-based research in heritage science. Katrien Keune – PhD, chemist. She is head of Science at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and professor by special appointment of Molecular Spectroscopy at …
European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science – Slovenia (E-RIHS.si) is inviting you to the Meeting to Celebrate the Enlargement of the E-RIHS.SI Consortium, which will take place on 20 September at 3p.m. CET in Zbornična dvorana of the University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 12, Ljubljana, Slovenia. We will celebrate the signing of the Annex to …
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A new publication from researchers at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the University of Copenhagen, including Dr. Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo, is now available and freely accessible in Heritage : “Palmyrene Polychromy: Investigations of Funerary Portraits from Palmyra in the Collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen”. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark) possesses the largest …
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On Thurday 23 June 2022 at 4:30pm CET, we invite you to a lecture by Tjaša Rijavec a PhD student of Chemical Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. The lecture titled ”Modelling the lifetime of PVC in collections” is part of the MCI – Topics in Museum Conservation and …
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Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana hosted a public workshop on the Value and role of smells in museum practice. The event was held on July 4 2022 in a hybrid format, live at Zbornična dvorana of the University of Ljubljana as well as online. The workshop gave participants the opportunity to learn more about smell as …
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Within the EU-funded UNCERTIR project, about 100 books dated from 1851 and 2000 have been randomly selected from the collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia (NUK). These books have been assessed visually and the near infrared (NIR) spectra of paper were measured. The analyses have been carried out by the fellow Dr …
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On Thurday 19 May 2022 at 4:30pm CET, we invite you to a lecture by Dr Hassan Ebeid (Project ISLAPAP) a Marie Curie Fellow from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. The lecture titled ”Understanding Islamic Paper – Materials and Techniques” is part of the MCI – Topics in Museum Conservation …
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The European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS) was designed as a pan-European distributed infrastructure with the vision of replacing the traditional science-for-art approach to conservation through the new widely interdisciplinary sector of Heritage Science (HS) to improve the understanding and sustainable preservation of cultural heritage. Figure 1: Timeline of the alignment among IPERION HS, …
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