In 2018, Ingenium began a large-scale collections move, consolidating artefacts from four rental warehouses into a new purpose built storage facility. Collection hazards were assessed, prioritised and treated according to Ingenium’s comprehensive Collection Risk Management Program (CRMP), placing health and safety at the forefront of collections care. This paper will present hazard assessment and mitigation in one warehouse, the Building 2421 Reserve Collection, showing the challenges overcome to move a large industrial collection on a tight schedule and with limited staffing and resources. A selection of case studies will provide examples of hazard mitigation in artefacts containing asbestos, radioactivity, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and mercury. The case studies demonstrate how simple solutions and triage treatments were implemented by conservators and specialised contractors in order to mitigate collection hazards during the move project. The Building 2421 Reserve Collection move was completed in December 2021 and the full collections move was completed in August 2022.
{"title":"A tale of hazards: Ingenium’s industrial collections move","authors":"Skye Marshall, Jacqueline Riddle","doi":"10.14568/cp29217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp29217","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018, Ingenium began a large-scale collections move, consolidating artefacts from four rental warehouses into a new purpose built storage facility. Collection hazards were assessed, prioritised and treated according to Ingenium’s comprehensive Collection Risk Management Program (CRMP), placing health and safety at the forefront of collections care. This paper will present hazard assessment and mitigation in one warehouse, the Building 2421 Reserve Collection, showing the challenges overcome to move a large industrial collection on a tight schedule and with limited staffing and resources. A selection of case studies will provide examples of hazard mitigation in artefacts containing asbestos, radioactivity, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and mercury. The case studies demonstrate how simple solutions and triage treatments were implemented by conservators and specialised contractors in order to mitigate collection hazards during the move project. The Building 2421 Reserve Collection move was completed in December 2021 and the full collections move was completed in August 2022.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66722922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article provides a critical summary of repair techniques employed for timber frame and an analysis of factors which might determine the adoption of a particular approach, in this case, a brief analysis at Gunns Mill. Gunns Mill is a remaining blast furnace from the 17th century, located in the Forest of Dean, which was the leading iron-making area in the UK since the medieval ages. The 18th-century half-timbered paper drying house endured, however, it is in a dilapidated state. The knowledge from the first part is applied to an aspect of the paper house and discussed approaches for its repair. Repairing does not only depend upon structural considerations, historic value and visual appearance influences, but also on the conservation philosophy adopted, which might restrict the range of options of repair.
{"title":"A study of timber frame repair and the case of Gunns Mill’s old blast furnace","authors":"Millena Moreira Fontes","doi":"10.14568/cp29466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp29466","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a critical summary of repair techniques employed for timber frame and an analysis of factors which might determine the adoption of a particular approach, in this case, a brief analysis at Gunns Mill. Gunns Mill is a remaining blast furnace from the 17th century, located in the Forest of Dean, which was the leading iron-making area in the UK since the medieval ages. The 18th-century half-timbered paper drying house endured, however, it is in a dilapidated state. The knowledge from the first part is applied to an aspect of the paper house and discussed approaches for its repair. Repairing does not only depend upon structural considerations, historic value and visual appearance influences, but also on the conservation philosophy adopted, which might restrict the range of options of repair.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66722972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study presents an analytical investigation and electrochemical conservation treatment for a group of four copper alloy artifacts excavated from the archaeological cemetery that was located on the site of the Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan. The chemical analyses of internal alloys showed that a bracelet and a spatula were made of a quaternary copper–zinc–tin–lead alloy, a bracelet was made of a copper–silver–zinc alloy, and a spatula was made of a copper–tin, a bronze alloy. The corrosion products analyses indicated the presence oxides, carbonates and chlorides of copper, in addition to silver chlorides for the copper–silver–zinc alloy bracelet. The metallographic examination showed various degrees of working and heat treatment in the manufacturing process of the artifacts. The potentiostatic reduction technique was effective in reducing the corrosion products on the artifacts, which were finally coated with Paraloid B–72 to prevent corrosion reoccurrence.
{"title":"Analytical investigation and electrochemical conservation treatment for archaeological copper alloy artifacts from Jordan","authors":"Ahmad N. Abu-Baker","doi":"10.14568/cp26263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp26263","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an analytical investigation and electrochemical conservation treatment for a group of four copper alloy artifacts excavated from the archaeological cemetery that was located on the site of the Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan. The chemical analyses of internal alloys showed that a bracelet and a spatula were made of a quaternary copper–zinc–tin–lead alloy, a bracelet was made of a copper–silver–zinc alloy, and a spatula was made of a copper–tin, a bronze alloy. The corrosion products analyses indicated the presence oxides, carbonates and chlorides of copper, in addition to silver chlorides for the copper–silver–zinc alloy bracelet. The metallographic examination showed various degrees of working and heat treatment in the manufacturing process of the artifacts. The potentiostatic reduction technique was effective in reducing the corrosion products on the artifacts, which were finally coated with Paraloid B–72 to prevent corrosion reoccurrence.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66721493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present investigation gathers the results of the characterization and scientific analysis of a memories album with albumen prints from the end of the 19th century, belonging to the art collector Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. The study has focused on different analytical techniques, such as optical microscopy (OM), energy dispersive X-ray micro-fluorescence (ED-XRF), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (ATR-FTIR), Raman microspectroscopy (μ-Raman) and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (μ-FTIR). The use of these different and complementary techniques allowed us to collect important information about this album, namely some organic and inorganic components present in the photographic prints and its conservation condition, data about its manufacture and to make an approximation to its historical dating.
{"title":"Materials characterization of albumen prints from Calouste Gulbenkian´s memories album","authors":"Alba Guerrero, Joana Silva","doi":"10.14568/cp26220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp26220","url":null,"abstract":"The present investigation gathers the results of the characterization and scientific analysis of a memories album with albumen prints from the end of the 19th century, belonging to the art collector Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. The study has focused on different analytical techniques, such as optical microscopy (OM), energy dispersive X-ray micro-fluorescence (ED-XRF), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (ATR-FTIR), Raman microspectroscopy (μ-Raman) and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (μ-FTIR). The use of these different and complementary techniques allowed us to collect important information about this album, namely some organic and inorganic components present in the photographic prints and its conservation condition, data about its manufacture and to make an approximation to its historical dating.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66721830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvia Díaz Parrilla, Antonio-J. Sánchez Fernández, Jorge Luis de la Torre Cantero
The altarpiece is a heritage asset with specific formal characteristics, which justifies its registration in favour of its conservation and dissemination. Given its three-dimensional nature, this study proposes the use of the HBIM methodology to create a digital replica of the altarpiece, which constitutes an information model for professional, academic or informative use. Its application involves a set of processes, intervening agents and many options regarding tools -hardware and software- used according to the needs. We present two case studies: an altarpiece in its original location and another moved to a workshop, which poses different challenges on how to capture its physical configuration, what information to add and how to present it to the user. We propose a methodology for documenting altarpieces initiated in the Canary Islands and that could be extrapolated to the study of altarpieces from different periods and geographies.
{"title":"An approach to HBIM methodology applied to the conservation of altarpieces: two case studies in the Canary Islands","authors":"Silvia Díaz Parrilla, Antonio-J. Sánchez Fernández, Jorge Luis de la Torre Cantero","doi":"10.14568/cp27293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp27293","url":null,"abstract":"The altarpiece is a heritage asset with specific formal characteristics, which justifies its registration in favour of its conservation and dissemination. Given its three-dimensional nature, this study proposes the use of the HBIM methodology to create a digital replica of the altarpiece, which constitutes an information model for professional, academic or informative use. Its application involves a set of processes, intervening agents and many options regarding tools -hardware and software- used according to the needs. We present two case studies: an altarpiece in its original location and another moved to a workshop, which poses different challenges on how to capture its physical configuration, what information to add and how to present it to the user. We propose a methodology for documenting altarpieces initiated in the Canary Islands and that could be extrapolated to the study of altarpieces from different periods and geographies.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66722400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Industrial heritage, understood as the group of elements related to the work culture and production activities that emerged during the industrial revolution, has been surveyed and documented extensively in Spain in recent decades. This is particularly the case of recent years thanks to the advent of digital tools and systems. In the case of Andalusia, the efforts to document, disseminate and protect industrial heritage have been the subject of a variety of actions and projects. This paper describes the methodology used and the results obtained from a review of the existing 1,443 records of immovable assets of industrial heritage. The results point to deficiencies in the updating and incorporation of information in the Digital Guide, and to the need to carry out actions geared more towards understanding the elements as an integral whole made up of the landscape in which they appear.
{"title":"Exploring Andalusian industrial heritage through data science: breaking down the gaps and concerns to visualise opportunities","authors":"Patricia Ferreira Lopes","doi":"10.14568/cp27024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp27024","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial heritage, understood as the group of elements related to the work culture and production activities that emerged during the industrial revolution, has been surveyed and documented extensively in Spain in recent decades. This is particularly the case of recent years thanks to the advent of digital tools and systems. In the case of Andalusia, the efforts to document, disseminate and protect industrial heritage have been the subject of a variety of actions and projects. This paper describes the methodology used and the results obtained from a review of the existing 1,443 records of immovable assets of industrial heritage. The results point to deficiencies in the updating and incorporation of information in the Digital Guide, and to the need to carry out actions geared more towards understanding the elements as an integral whole made up of the landscape in which they appear.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66722166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The industrial and railway protagonism in promoting economic, social and regional development in recent centuries is not reflected in international preservation policies. The industrial universe, and specifically the railway sector, has characteristics that demand a different interpretation from other cultural assets and little progress has been made in this regard over the 50 years of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. In this way, the article contextualizes the creation of international heritage and the presence of industrial goods as World Heritage to justify the need for a new look at these goods. Within this problem, specificities of the railway heritage are presented and the proposition of eight aspects that provide the reading and interpretation of its main characteristics, responsible for the attribution of its heritage values and, consequently, its cultural significance.
{"title":"The railway heritage in the context of UNESCO: railway aspects for its interpretation and safeguard","authors":"Breno Borges","doi":"10.14568/cp29218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp29218","url":null,"abstract":"The industrial and railway protagonism in promoting economic, social and regional development in recent centuries is not reflected in international preservation policies. The industrial universe, and specifically the railway sector, has characteristics that demand a different interpretation from other cultural assets and little progress has been made in this regard over the 50 years of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. In this way, the article contextualizes the creation of international heritage and the presence of industrial goods as World Heritage to justify the need for a new look at these goods. Within this problem, specificities of the railway heritage are presented and the proposition of eight aspects that provide the reading and interpretation of its main characteristics, responsible for the attribution of its heritage values and, consequently, its cultural significance.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66723039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanoel Silva de Amorim, Girlândia de Morais Sampaio, Lorena Vila Bela Costa, Alberto Casado Lordsleem Júnior, E. Monteiro, W. Soares
This article aims to propose a method for recording and monitoring pathological manifestations in historic buildings, based on periodic building inspections, mapping and filing of damages. Through the case study carried out at the Eufrásio Barbosa Market, historical centre of the city of Olinda (Brazil) - Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, where the applicability of the proposed method was validated, using three guidelines to support the methodological steps: identification and knowledge of the building, diagnosis and prioritization of interventions. The results showed the evolution process of the pathological manifestations on the facades of historic buildings, indicating a priority matrix to guide the asset manager in the planning of maintenance, matching the needs of the building and available financial resources. As a contribution, there is the use of the methodological triad, being a version adapted from other authors, assisting in the management of the conservation of the built property, besides the awareness of the need to preserve the architectural heritage.
{"title":"Damage mapping as a tool in the maintenance of architectural heritage: the case of Eufrásio Barbosa Market","authors":"Emanoel Silva de Amorim, Girlândia de Morais Sampaio, Lorena Vila Bela Costa, Alberto Casado Lordsleem Júnior, E. Monteiro, W. Soares","doi":"10.14568/cp29216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp29216","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to propose a method for recording and monitoring pathological manifestations in historic buildings, based on periodic building inspections, mapping and filing of damages. Through the case study carried out at the Eufrásio Barbosa Market, historical centre of the city of Olinda (Brazil) - Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, where the applicability of the proposed method was validated, using three guidelines to support the methodological steps: identification and knowledge of the building, diagnosis and prioritization of interventions. The results showed the evolution process of the pathological manifestations on the facades of historic buildings, indicating a priority matrix to guide the asset manager in the planning of maintenance, matching the needs of the building and available financial resources. As a contribution, there is the use of the methodological triad, being a version adapted from other authors, assisting in the management of the conservation of the built property, besides the awareness of the need to preserve the architectural heritage.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66723252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
De Havilland Comet 4C “G-BDIX” arrived at the National Museum of Flight (NMoF) in Scotland in September 1981 and has been displayed outdoors and fully exposed to the environmental conditions ever since. In 2018, National Museums Scotland (NMS) set a development in motion at its NMoF site with the aim to display the dH Comet, amongst other aircraft, in a new, environmentally controlled hangar. Due to planning permission issues the project was cancelled, and the museum is now scoping out alternative options. This led to focus on the outside of the aircraft and provided the opportunity to revisit the work carried out during a project in 2012/13, at the time making the passenger cabin watertight and rectify interior damage.
{"title":"Return of the space hoppers: more measures on dH Comet G-BDIX","authors":"Thilo Buergel","doi":"10.14568/cp29433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp29433","url":null,"abstract":"De Havilland Comet 4C “G-BDIX” arrived at the National Museum of Flight (NMoF) in Scotland in September 1981 and has been displayed outdoors and fully exposed to the environmental conditions ever since. In 2018, National Museums Scotland (NMS) set a development in motion at its NMoF site with the aim to display the dH Comet, amongst other aircraft, in a new, environmentally controlled hangar. Due to planning permission issues the project was cancelled, and the museum is now scoping out alternative options. This led to focus on the outside of the aircraft and provided the opportunity to revisit the work carried out during a project in 2012/13, at the time making the passenger cabin watertight and rectify interior damage.","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66723330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article aims to frame, nationally and internationally, the intervention criteria adopted in the Church of Santa Engrácia, when, in the midst of the Estado Novo regime, it was decided to complete the unfinished Baroque building, interrupted more than two centuries ago. In the challenge faced, the advances of the History of Art proved to be fundamental, in particular the new status given to the Portuguese Baroque from the 1950s onwards, and the knowledge of the principles for the conservation and restoration of heritage disseminated, both, in the Athens (1931) and in the Venice (1964) Charters. These combined circumstances, in which we documented the interdisciplinary collaboration between architect and art historian, reinforce Santa Engrácia's condition as a paradigmatic example of monumental restoration in Portugal, coordinated by the Direção Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais [General Directorate of National Buildings and Monuments] (DGEMN), under the maxim widely spread since the Athens Charter that “each case is a particular case".
本文旨在构建国内和国际上对Santa Church Engrácia采用的干预标准,当时,在Estado Novo政权期间,决定完成未完成的巴洛克式建筑,该建筑在两个多世纪前中断。面对挑战,艺术史的进步被证明是根本性的,特别是从20世纪50年代起葡萄牙巴洛克风格的新地位,以及在雅典(1931年)和威尼斯(1964年)宪章中传播的遗产保护和修复原则的知识。在这些综合的情况下,我们记录了建筑师和艺术历史学家之间的跨学科合作,巩固了圣诞老人Engrácia的条件,使其成为葡萄牙纪念性修复的典范,由国家建筑和纪念碑总局(DGEMN)协调,遵循自雅典宪章以来广泛传播的格言“每个案例都是一个特殊的案例”。
{"title":"The completion of the Church of Santa Engrácia in the context of the valorization of the Baroque style in Portugal and the principles of the international Charters of Athens and Venice (1953-1966)","authors":"Clara Moura Soares","doi":"10.14568/cp25017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14568/cp25017","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to frame, nationally and internationally, the intervention criteria adopted in the Church of Santa Engrácia, when, in the midst of the Estado Novo regime, it was decided to complete the unfinished Baroque building, interrupted more than two centuries ago. In the challenge faced, the advances of the History of Art proved to be fundamental, in particular the new status given to the Portuguese Baroque from the 1950s onwards, and the knowledge of the principles for the conservation and restoration of heritage disseminated, both, in the Athens (1931) and in the Venice (1964) Charters. These combined circumstances, in which we documented the interdisciplinary collaboration between architect and art historian, reinforce Santa Engrácia's condition as a paradigmatic example of monumental restoration in Portugal, coordinated by the Direção Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais [General Directorate of National Buildings and Monuments] (DGEMN), under the maxim widely spread since the Athens Charter that “each case is a particular case\".","PeriodicalId":55942,"journal":{"name":"Conservar Patrimonio","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66721195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}