Materials conservation is a multidisciplinary field that integrates materials science, chemistry, and traditional conservation techniques to preserve cultural and built heritage. This area of research ...

IPI is pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Conservation Science: Heritage Materials, co-edited by our Director of Research, Emma J Richardson.

Deep inside the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures—past cases filled with cuneiform tablets and giant stone sculptures that guarded the temples of long-dead kings—is a very modern laboratory.

Original ed. published in 1986. Also available in print edition. Mode of access: World Wide Web. 1. Introduction -- 2. Polymer science -- 3. Solvents -- 4. Adhesion -- 5. Uses and requirements of ...

Photo provided Individuals, including Giorgia Auteri, left front, work at a conservation genetics workshop at the Institute of Forestry at Tribhuvan University in Katmandu, Nepal, using materials that ...

A group of conservation organizations said U.S. Critical Materials presented a “bad faith” proposal for “a mining plan” in ...

Plastics in collections -- Historical development of plastics -- Technology of plastics production -- Properties of plastics -- Identification of plastics in collections -- Degradation of plastics -- ...

The conservation of historic built fabric is one of the cornerstones of Historic Preservation philosophy, theory and practice. Therefore, an overall understanding of processes contributing to the ...

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities invented a conservation material called Carbon 13 in collaboration with the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority to use it in the restoration of artefacts, the antiquities ...