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Fully funded PhD studentship available – FINISHED
The HSLL is pleased to announce one fully funded 4-year heritage science PhD studentship starting 1 Oct 2021. We are looking for outstanding applicants with an MSc in chemistry, engineering, environmental science, conservation or other relevant disciplines, with a good [...]
Affordable monitoring of pollutants in museum environments
Researchers from the Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana and National Museum of Slovenia recently published the article titled: “Validation of passive samplers for monitoring of acetic and formic acid in museum environments”. This study was done in the frame of the [...]
Prof. Baglioni’s Webinar: Soft matter and cultural heritage
We are pleased to announce that the Webinar “Application of soft matter to the conservation of cultural heritage” as presented by Professor Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, is now available as a video recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE64vqdNz2w Art conservation poses a significant [...]
Welcome Dr. Coppola and Dr. Ebeid, our Marie Curie Fellows!
Please join us as we offer our congratulations to Dr. Coppola and Dr. Ebeid, who were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowships for their proposals UNCERTIR and ISLAPAP, and are joining the HSLL team in the [...]
Imaging Spectroscopy for Quantitative Monitoring of Ageing
Ageing of historical objects often results in changes in the optical properties of the constituent materials. Imaging spectroscopy (IS) can be a valuable tool for monitoring of such changes although it has so far rarely been used in a quantitative [...]
Poly(vinyl chloride) in art and design collections
Tjaša Rijavec, Matija Strlič and Irena Kralj Cigić recently published the invited feature paper “Plastics in Heritage Collections: Poly(vinyl chloride) Degradation and Characterization” in Acta Chimica Slovenica. Museums and galleries house significant collections of objects and contemporary art made of [...]
Material characterisation of a painted beehive panel
Researchers from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenian Ethnographic Museum and Clyde Hyperspectral Imaging & Technology published the paper »Material characterisation of a painted [...]
Characterisation and durability of Xuan paper
Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Heritage of the University College London, the Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana, and Sichuan Museum in Chengdu, China, recently published the article titled: »Characterisation and durability of contemporary unsized Xuan paper«. Xuan paper is a [...]
Non‑destructive collection survey of the historical Classense Library
For the first time, a medieval rag-paper based collection has been surveyed using the non-destructive analytical instrument developed in the project SurveNIR. The collection of the Classense library in Ravenna is extraordinarily significant, with more than 800,000 items, among which [...]
