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Conservation and professional storage of iron artefacts
In contrast to most iron-wrought arts and crafts or technical iron constructions, it is extremely difficult to prevent the corrosion of archaeological iron artefacts. Although scientists and conservators have had some success in developing ways to...
Elaborately decorated caskets in the royal tomb at the Merseburg Cathedral
The royal tomb at the Merseburg Cathedral contains 37 elaborately decorated pewter sarcophagi dating back to the turn of the 18th century. Many of the caskets were in a severely poor condition. Break-ins and vandalism over the years had resulted in...
Stabilization of brittle newspaper pages
Newspapers have been produced with wood-pulp since the mid-19th century. Although wood-pulp paper is ideal for mass production, it has proven quite unstable over time. The acids in the pulp cause the paper to yellow, lose integrity and become so...
Research on the statics of historic keyboard instruments
The Händel-Haus in Halle possesses an extensive collection of rare musical instruments, the majority of which are historic keyboard instruments. Past conservation efforts have primarily focused on keeping the instruments playable in order to prolong...
Conservation of the “Schwarzburger Zeughaus” weapons collection
The Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg owns an important collection of approximately 4,000 weapons and armoury pieces dating between the 15th and 19th century. However, only a small portion of the collection, stored in one of the Schwarzburg Castle...
Aging of synthetic bonding agents on murals
One hundred years ago, German scientists discovered Buddhist murals dating from the 5th to 12th centuries AD along the northern Silk Road in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (Uiguria) and brought them back to Berlin. These cave murals, now in the...
Historic keyboard instruments in the collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has begun extensive conservation work on historic keyboard instruments dating between 1790 and 1850 – four fortepianos and a table piano - which paradigmatically demonstrate how the art of piano-making developed through...
ILKAR – Integrated solutions for the preservation, archiving and conservation of endangered magnetic tapes and cylinders
The music archive at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin owns a unique collection of traditional music from regions all around the world. The collection contains more than 30,000 wax cylinder records and almost 10,000 original field recordings on a...
Preserving a chapter of German photographic history 1945 - 1960
The German Photographic Library at the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden (SLUB) maintains an important photo archive of German art and cultural history. The KUR project aimed to preserve and publish all 68,000 film negatives which...
Anti-aging treatment for cultural assets with elastomer components
Elastomers, such as rubber, have played an integral part in daily life, the art world, technology and other areas since the 19th century. They possess a diverse array of characteristics which make them useful in household goods, clothing, toys,...