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Professor Mojca Ramšak gave a lecture on the olfactory cultural heritage in Slovenia

Professor Dr Mojca Ramšak gave a remarkable lecture on Slovenian olfactory heritage during the recent conference on the institutionalisation of intangible cultural heritage. The event took place on 22 and 23 November 2024 at the Museum “House of the Halubje Bell Ringers” in Viškovo, Croatia. The town of Viškovo is home to four UNESCO-protected elements …

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HeriQuest

The HeriQuest project addresses the widely recognised problem of understanding cultural heritage values and their effective inclusion in cultural heritage management by addressing two major challenges: the degradation of cultural heritage  due to inadequate involvement of non-expert stakeholders values in decision-making. We will explore how non-expert stakeholders, including local communities and the general public, perceive …

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Public Event: Green Conservation Practices in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

We invite you to join us on 27 November 2024 at the Gallery of Modern Art, Ljubljana, for a day-long event dedicated to sustainability in heritage conservation. Hosted by the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana, the EU project Greenart, and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, the event features international experts discussing innovative green practices in heritage conservation. …

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Slovenian-Egyptian Cooperation in Heritage Science

On 24 October, Prof. Dr. Matija Strlič, Heritage Science Lab Lead, Prof. Dr. Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Dr. Polonca Ropret, National Coordinator of E-RIHS.SI, and Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Coordinator of the Slovenian-Egyptian Heritage Science Platform (SloveNile) met with a high-ranking Egyptian delegation: Prof. Dr. Gina El-Feky, …

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Professor Dr. Mojca Ramšak Highlights Olfactory Heritage in Interviews and Lectures

Professor Dr Mojca Ramšak, who leads the project “Smell and Intangible Cultural Heritage” made important contributions to the public discourse on olfactory heritage this autumn. During the European Heritage Days, she gave an insightful interview on Radio Slovenia’s Cultural Focus programme (11. 10. 2024), in which she discussed the socio-cultural significance of smell (you can …

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SloveNile – Slovenian-Egyptian Heritage Science

The South Eastern Europe (SEE) and the South Mediterranean countries, such as Slovenia and Egypt, are particularly rich in cultural heritage (CH), creative talent and enormous tourism potential. Both countries reaffirm their commitment to deepening their cultural, political, economic, and social relations on the basis of their close cooperation and strategic partnership with priorities on sustainability …

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HSLL Featured in Radio Val 202 Interview

The Heritage Science Laboratory (HSLL) was recently featured on Radio Val 202 show Frekvenca X, in a special episode titled “Xkurzija: Laboratorij dediščinske znanosti“. Hosted by Dr. Tjaša Rijavec, Emma Paolin and Dr. Matija Strlič, this interview offered listeners an insight into the daily research activities of the HSLL. The team talked about the relevance …

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Multivariate Data Analysis for Heritage Science Course at HSLL

Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana was pleased to welcome Prof Dr Tom Fearn giving an advanced training course in mutivariate data analysis. Focussing specifically on examples of heritage science data, Prof Fearn focused on data analysis methods that enable researchers to visualise data, explore patterns, develop and test hypotheses, working with typical spectral and chromatographic data …

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New Insights into the Structure of Tin-weighted Silk

Colleagues at the Heritage Science Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana have made an important contribution to the understanding of structural changes in silk fibres caused by the 19th-century practice of ‘tin-weighting’. Using this process, textile manufacturers altered the weight and thus the draping properties of silk, as well as increased its weight, which was …

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