Researchers at the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana (HSLL) of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, researchers at University College London (UCL) and conservators at the Museum of London have collaborated in interdisciplinary research in the field of heritage science, studying the stability and risk of displaying the 6-metre high and 3-metre wide polyvinyl chloride [...]

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 [...]

Researchers from the Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana have successfully applied machine learning algorithms to the development of computational models for identification and quantification of plasticizers in PVC objects. This pioneering study on real objects demonstrates that non-destructive analysis of plasticizers in historic collections of degraded PVC objects is possible. Plasticizers play a key role in [...]