Material Research in Monument Conservation
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 21740
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heat treatment of metallic materials; metallography; microscopy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: material research; preservation of cultural heritage objects; conservation of paper documents; leather; parchment and seals; historical and modern inks; historical photographic techniques and cinematographic films
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The care of cultural heritage objects requires the necessary cooperation of the restorer-conservator, art historian, and chemist-technologist. This activity includes methods focused on stopping or slowing down the degradation of the monument´s materials (conservation) and procedures that restore the integrity of the objects at a certain knowledge of its historical development (restoration). This restores the former aesthetic or technical functionality of the monument. An important part of the care of monuments is the so-called preventive conservation, which is defined as a pre-approved plan of activities focused on slowing down the damage and reducing risks for collections. It includes the creation of optimal climatic conditions (temperature, relative humidity, removal of corrosive gaseous pollutants) during long-term storage of collections and funds in repositories, their protection during exhibition and presentation, security against fires, floods, or theft, etc. The role of conservation sciences in all these activities, especially in the material investigation of the monument before its restoration, but also in the technological research itself, is completely irreplaceable.
This Special Edition includes contributions from various areas of monument care, which connect material science and technological research. Therefore, papers dealing with material research, material analysis, and conservation techniques of various types of historical objects are highly welcome.
Dr. Pavel Novák
Dr. Durovic Michal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cultural heritage
- materials of cultural heritage objects
- heritage science
- preventive conservation
- conservation
- restoration
- paper
- textile
- synthetic polymers
- glass
- ceramics
- metals
- artworks
- historical pigments
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