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The Polychromy of Funerary Potraits from Palmyra
A new publication from researchers at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the University of Copenhagen, including Dr. Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo, is now available and freely accessible in Heritage : “Palmyrene Polychromy: Investigations of Funerary Portraits from Palmyra in the Collections [...]
Join the lecture: Modelling the lifetime of PVC in collections by Tjaša Rijavec
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 [...]
Workshop: Value and role of smells in museum practice
Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana hosted a public workshop on the Value and role of smells in museum practice. The event was held on July 4 2022 in a hybrid format, live at Zbornična dvorana of the University of Ljubljana as [...]
UNCERTIR: 3270 spectra collected at the National and University Library
Within the EU-funded UNCERTIR project, about 100 books dated from 1851 and 2000 have been randomly selected from the collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia (NUK). These books have been assessed visually and the near infrared (NIR) [...]
Join the lecture: Understanding Islamic Paper by Dr Hassan Ebeid
On Thurday 19 May 2022 at 4:30pm CET, we invite you to a lecture by Dr Hassan Ebeid (Project ISLAPAP) a Marie Curie Fellow from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. The lecture titled ''Understanding Islamic [...]
Installation of new olfactory port for sensory analysis
The Heritage Science Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana has just made one more step on the path of sensory analysis of cultural heritage. The installation of an Olfactory Port from GLSciences as an additional detector on a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry [...]
Heritage Science for Schoolchildren at the Technical Museum
The Technical Museum of Slovenia, located in Bistra, Vrhnika is well known for its extensive collections and displays of technical heritage. From 12-14 April 2022 the Museum hosted a series of science engagement events in collaboration with the University of [...]
Machine learning for historical PVC analysis
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 [...]
Mojca Ramšak’s article ”About smell, its meanings, olfactory heritage and museums”
RAMŠAK, Mojca. O vonju, njegovih pomenih, vohalni dediščini in muzejih. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta], ISSN 0354-0316. [Tiskana izd.], 2021, letn. 31 = 82, str. 111-132, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 93469443] The article presents ways in which anthropology has approached the [...]
