• |September 29th, 2026|

    Doctoral student Emma Paolin, together with colleagues from the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana, has published a new study on reproducing the smell of historical objects. The research evaluated every step of the process, from sampling, through chemical and olfactory characterisation, to reproduction and validation, using an early 20th-century perfume flask as the case study. [...]

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  • |September 28th, 2026|

    New research involving the University of Ljubljana, including the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana and the Centre of Excellence Green Heritage Science provides new insights into the degradation of historical silk and offers a new modelling approach to support its sustainable preservation in museum collections. The study, Damage function for silk fabric, published in npj Heritage Science on 6 June [...]

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  • |September 23rd, 2026|

    Opening new possibilities for the analysis of verdigris! Researchers from the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana have published a new study exploring the behaviour of copper(II) acetate on a fundamental level using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS). […]

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