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Moveable cultural assets from the imperial and royal tombs at the Speyer Cathedral
The Speyer Museum of Palatinate History contains rare medieval fabrics taken from the tombs of emperors and kings buried in the Speyer Cathedral. In 1900 a state commission in Bavaria, to which the Palatinate then belonged, authorized the opening of...
Mass finds in archaeological collections
Due to large building excavation projects and the drainage of swamps and moors, archaeological agencies and collections have been confronted with an extraordinary number of archaeological finds. One of the largest unsolved problems is how best to...
Preservation and conservation of the Pausa collection
Formerly known around the world for its patterns and prints, the Württemberg-based textile printing company Pausa was forced to stop production in 2004. That same year the industrial complex was officially recognized as a cultural historic landmark...
Sustainability of mass de-acidification of library collections
Since wood pulp replaced textile fibres, the processing methods and sizing agents used in paper-making has resulted in acidity that deteriorates the paper with time. “Mass de-acidification” is a process used by libraries and archives since the 1990s...
Preservation of Oscar Sala’s audio tapes
The Deutsches Museum in Munich is one of the world’s leading museums of technological and scientific history. A majority of its collection is devoted to electronic music, which is also one of the museum’s main focuses of research. Recently the...
Rescuing the Waldenburg Natural History Cabinet
The Waldenburg Natural History Cabinet, one of the oldest natural history collections in Germany, contains extremely rare and unique specimens of outstanding quality from the early 18th to the late 19th century. Because it is largely in its original...
The Lost Art of Wax Moulages: Preserving Valuable Artistic Crafts
Das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum Dresden besitzt mit 2.000 Objekten eine der weltweit größten Sammlungen naturnaher Wiedergaben von Krankheitsbildern in Wachs. Diese so genannten Moulagen, zunächst als Anschauungsmittel in der medizinischen Ausbildung...
Tabu – Safeguarding audio-visual cultural assets
“Tabu. A Story of the South Seas” (1931) was Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s last film. Over the years the film has been repeatedly edited and now exists in a variety of positive copy versions and re-released editions. The original film negatives,...
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...