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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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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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2020.
The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) of Brussels is renewing the second floor of his permanent exhibition. One of the showcases is to be reorganised and needs the conception and implementation of supports for a collection of 12 musical instruments. In order to improve the conservation conditions, the readability as well as the aesthetic of the showcase. The realisation of the supports for...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
The Musée Bolo collections include several thousand computers, softwares, accessories, peripherals but also newspapers, magazines, books and tutorials. These objects have been collected for more than twenty years by the museum's founder, Yves Bolognini. Among these objects, some screens display a strange alteration called the cataract of cathode-ray screens. Two affected models, the VT220...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
The Research and Archiving Center of the swiss Cinematheque, located in Penthaz, preserves a collection of 3000 technical cinematic objects, dated from the eighteen century til today. The issue of this thesis deals with dangerous materials in technical cinematic objets : asbestos, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyl (BPC) and radioactivity. The use of these materials with interesting properties...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
Currently there is no general method for conservation of archaeological iron artefacts, the sensibilty of this material implies to establish long and expensive procedures on the long term. Each institution tries to employ their own procedure adapted to the objects and as well as the financial situation of the institution. Following a survey of 10 Swiss and French institutions, it was possible to...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne found out that some autographs on sports equipments have a tendency to fade with time – and this despite of rather ideal conservation conditions. To partially answer this problem, Mrs Patricia Reymond – collection manager – thought to anticipate by giving the athletes pens with most stable ink. The subject of inks permanency depending on their substratum and...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
As an integral part of the collections of the scientific, technical and horological heritage museums, objects such as the chrono-comparator Greiner Chronografic around which this document is focused, and which include a large electrical part, remain a rather neglected portion of the current museum heritage. It is therefore recognized that it is important to take care of these objects but...
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Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2019.
The National Car Museum of Mulhouse (Schlumpf Collection) is carring out since many years a politic to keep running or start again a part of the collection. It has many advantages but do not come without risks. That’s why methods to restart engines have been developed by many institutions worldwide. Acoustic emission could be a good complement to such methods as far as it allows to know the...
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