Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
As part of my Bachelor thesis, I had to consider the issue of the storage of the dry-preserved ichthyological collection of the Natural History Museum in Neuchâtel, which the institution considered inappropriate under current conditions. In order to propose a rearrangement / replacement project for the cabinet containing this collection, a spatial assessment was made, so as to determine the...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
This work addresses a quilted horse armor from Nigeria kept in the Bernisches Historisches Museum where it was being stored on a real size horse dummy. However, this storage wasn’t adapted as the dummy’s dimensions didn’t fit the armor which was distorting under its own weight. It was also exposed to both light and dust. In addition, this way of storing the object was taking a considerable...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
Archaeological wood is an organic material which, buried for years in a humid environment, will become waterlogged and suffer irreversible physical and chemical degradation. As a result of these numerous alterations in the burial environment, waterlogged wood is a very fragile material in an unstable state. Therefore, the risks of alteration are also very high as soon as they are uncovered...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage possesses a very large collection of sportswear and costumes, but encounters various problems when displaying these artefacts. First of all, the morphologies of the athletes rarely correspond to standard mannequins. Secondly, the outfits are often incomplete, which makes it difficult to achieve a coherent visual appearance. The use of replicas or...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
The Musée du Son de Martigny has four storerooms, an office and an exhibition area. The storage areas are full and cluttered. The Museum needs a spatial assessment of the collections in order to determine the volume of its collections. During the data entry, all the objects were taken into account and classified according to previously defined typologies. However, at the request of the curator,...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
The Römisch-katholische Kirchgemeinde in Solothurn has found a series of stained-glass elements that were previously kept inside of a wooden case in a parish storage. The principal wishes to store them under conditions that will ensure their long-term preservation. The stained-glass windows are currently stored on a wooden plate. The principal requests that the wooden plate be included in future...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
In this work we are interested in the restoration of a Green Ray Television Wonder belonging to the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. It is a coin-operated automaton from the 1930s which supposedly allows the user's mind to be "read" by means of television technology. This object is part of the technical heritage, more precisely electromechanical; conservation-restoration professionals are...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
Several vehicles conserved in the collections of the Mulhouse National Automobile Museum (Schlumpf Collection), notably Bugatti vehicles that have been kept in running conditions, develop recurring corrosions on parts of their cooling system made of aluminum alloys. This dissertation aims to diagnose these alterations on some of those vehicles, dating between 1920 and 1940, by assessing the...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
This project compares different coatings for Keris blades, in the framework of the collaboration with the Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB). The Keris blade collection of the MKB shows a wide variety of coatings, which are unique in that they are used for corrosion protection, but also for aesthetical and spiritual reasons. The objects, that arrived in different moments to the museum, have hardly...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
This master thesis focuses on the study of a flameworked glass diorama depicting the Piazza San Marco in Venice on a carnival day from a historical and technological standpoint. It also presents the preservation and treatment applied to the object. The diorama is preserved at the Villa Abegg, home of the couple who created the Abegg Foundation. The historical study showed that the object had been...
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