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Navigating conservation strategies: linking material research on alum-treated wood from the Oseberg collection to conservation decisions

Heritage Science, 2018
From the mid-1800s to the late 1950s, conservation by alum salts (aluminum potassium sulfate dodecahydrate)—with some variations—was a routine method for treating highly deteriorated waterlogged archaeological wood in many countries, especially in ...
Susan Braovac, Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Malin Sahlstedt, Hartmut Kutzke, Jeannette J. Łucejko, Torunn Klokkernes   +5 more
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Comparative chemical investigations of alum treated archaeological wood from various museum collections

Heritage Science, 2021
From the mid-1800s to the late 1960s, conservation by alum salts (KAl(SO4)2·12H2O—potassium aluminium sulphate), using various recipes, was a common method to prevent shrinkage and to strengthen waterlogged archaeological wooden objects.
Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko, Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Malin Sahlstedt, Francesca Modugno, Maria Perla Colombini, Susan Braovac   +5 more
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Temperature- and humidity-induced changes in alum-treated wood: a qualitative X-ray diffraction study

Heritage Science, 2018
Alum-treated wooden artefacts suffer from extreme deterioration, and the stability of these objects and the salts they contain to variations in climate conditions is an important issue.
Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Calin C. Steindal, Olga Narygina, Susan Braovac   +3 more
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Robbery in progress: Historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern Australia, the Copperback Quail‐thrush Cinclosoma clarum

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
We surveyed mitochondrial, autosomal, and Z chromosome diversity within and between the Copperback Quail‐thrush Cinclosoma clarum and Chestnut Quail‐thrush C.
Kerensa McElroy, Andrew Black, Gaynor Dolman, Philippa Horton, Lynn Pedler, Catriona D. Campbell, Alex Drew, Leo Joseph   +7 more
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Library preparation method and DNA source influence endogenous DNA recovery from 100‐year‐old avian museum specimens

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Museum specimens collected prior to cryogenic tissue storage are increasingly being used as genetic resources, and though high‐throughput sequencing is becoming more cost‐efficient, whole genome sequencing (WGS) of historical DNA (hDNA) remains ...
Amie E. Settlecowski, Ben D. Marks, Joseph D. Manthey   +2 more
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Ammonium alum in alum-treated wooden artefacts: discovery, origins and consequences

Heritage Science, 2019
Alum-treatment was extensively applied to archaeological wood from the Oseberg collection in the early 1900s, and was a common conservation method at the time involving impregnating objects with hot concentrated solutions of potassium alum (KAl(SO4)2 ...
Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Jeannette J. Łucejko, Ingrid M. T. Flåte, Francesca Modugno, Susan Braovac   +4 more
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The Victoria and Albert Museum Plaster Casts by the Nineteenth-Century Workshops of the Notre-Dame Cathedral: Scientific Analysis and Conservation

Heritage, 2022
Four nineteenth-century casts of the decoration on the north side of the exterior of the apse of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are held in the plaster casts collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Valentina Risdonne, Adriana Francescutto Miró, Sayuri Morio, Charis Theodorakopoulos   +3 more
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Type Gyermely Hoards and Their Dating A Supplemented Thesis Abstract: A Supplemented Thesis Abstract

Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2020
of PhD thesis submitted in 2019 to the Archaeology Doctoral Programme, Doctoral School of History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest under the supervision of Gábor V. Szabó.
Gábor János Tarbay
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Museums – Collections – Interpretations [PDF]

Civilisations, 2005
Introduction « Museums are about cannibals and glass boxes, a fate they cannot seem to escape no matter how hard they try. » (Michael M. Ames 1992 : 3) The cover of this volume of Civilisations shows a very recent museum, built in a small Japanese city called Kanazawa, situated in the western part of Tokyo near the Japanese Sea. It is the Museum of the
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The Witkacy Collection and Exhibition at the Museum of Middle Pomerania in Słupsk [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
This article describes the development of the Witkacy Collection in the Słupsk Museum. Itdetails the original acquisitions in 1965 and the subsequent additions to the collection.While most of the exhibit consists of portraits, the ...
Beata Zgodzińska
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