Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
Romont’s Vitromusée has planned to present an exhibition on flat glass, its fabrication technology and its history, for November 2021. Their wish was therefore to create, from the preparation process of this exhibition, a protocol of actions to be taken before an exhibition, starting with condition reporting, followed by the necessary interventions concerning the framing of the objects or...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
The subject of this master’s thesis is gelatin as found in Brendel's anatomical plant models. Dating from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, these three-dimensional educational models of flowers and other plants were intended to provide broad knowledge of botanical matter. Although there were numerous productions of anatomical models during the same period of time, Brendel's...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
This Master's thesis presents the study and restoration of a Vion type Q.S.C. 25 air navigation compass dated from 1926, which is part of the collections in the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (MAE), Le Bourget. This compass is distinguished by its compensating mechanism and the liquid that allows it to function. This work first presents a detailed description of the elements in the compass as...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
This thesis is dedicated to the study and treatment of an unearthed early Christian mosaic assumed to come from northern Syria. Its uncertain origin is related to its illegal excavation, which was probably carried out for lucrative purposes. This mosaic, discovered in 2012 in a depository, is in a dangerous state of conservation. The tesserae forming the tessellatum are only held together by a...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
This master thesis is part of the LIQUOR project, of the cultural heritage conservation research unit of the University of Applied Science Arc in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). This project focuses on the conservation of plants in fluid in the context of heritage, to establish recommendations in this regard. The present work deals more specifically with the question of the discoloration of the green...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
In December 2020, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage received the "Butterfly" costume as a donation. Worn at the Opening Ceremony of the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, the costume was designed by Peter Minshall, a Trinidadian artist known for his Carnival costumes. The "Butterfly" costume, consisting of a pair of wings with a length of about 4 meters and accessories, was kept in...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
La Collection jurassienne des beaux-arts (CJBA) englobe l’ensemble des oeuvres acquises par la République et Canton du Jura selon sa politique de préservation de l’histoire et des tendances de la région jurassienne. La collection possède environ 6750 oeuvres allant du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine. Les réserves dans lesquelles sont conservées ces oeuvres sont fortement...
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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 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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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
This thesis, dedicated to the tapa (barkcloths) from the ethnographic collection of the Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d’histoire (MCAH) in Lausanne, is built around three sections. The first one presents this material with a focus on its various and debatable etymology, especially in French, its equatorial repartition particularly in Oceania and Polynesia, its processing in this area,...
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