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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]