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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...
Stabilization of brittle newspaper pages
Newspapers have been produced with wood-pulp since the mid-19th century. Although wood-pulp paper is ideal for mass production, it has proven quite unstable over time. The acids in the pulp cause the paper to yellow, lose integrity and become so...
Research on the statics of historic keyboard instruments
The Händel-Haus in Halle possesses an extensive collection of rare musical instruments, the majority of which are historic keyboard instruments. Past conservation efforts have primarily focused on keeping the instruments playable in order to prolong...
Conservation of the “Schwarzburger Zeughaus” weapons collection
The Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg owns an important collection of approximately 4,000 weapons and armoury pieces dating between the 15th and 19th century. However, only a small portion of the collection, stored in one of the Schwarzburg Castle...
Aging of synthetic bonding agents on murals
One hundred years ago, German scientists discovered Buddhist murals dating from the 5th to 12th centuries AD along the northern Silk Road in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (Uiguria) and brought them back to Berlin. These cave murals, now in the...