Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration

Caractérisation des plaques d'identification militaires en zinc provenant du site de Carpash (Alsace, Haut-Rhin, F)

Scholl, Marie-Jeanne

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2013.

The excavation of the shelter Kilian in Carspach provides an opportunity for conservator-restorers to study the behavior of modern metals in archaeological context, through excavated artifacts, such as the identification tags. The metal undergoes, during burial, various corrosion processes, altering its original condition and weakening the object. These depend on many factors, linked not only to...

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Projet de conditionnement pour un transport: Le trésor de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maurice exposé au musée du Louvre

Rais, Manon

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2013.

This work is directly connected to the 1500th anniversary of the Abbey of St-Maurice founded in 515. In order to celebrate the event, important redevelopments of the Treasure of the Abbey are in progress for a new exhibition space. In this context, an exhibition showing pieces of the Treasure will take place in the prestigious Louvre Museum in spring 2014. Ways of packaging the objects for the...

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La Remise en Fonction de Luminaires : Le cas de la collection du Vitra Design Museum

Maître, Carole

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2013.

The Vitra Design Museum will present its next temporary exhibition called « Lightopia » from the 28th of September 2013 to the 16th of March 2014. The latter one will unveil around forty light fittings with a particular focus on their history, their daily use and their future, while linking them with architecture, art and culture. For this purpose the institution wishes to exhibit their objects...

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Réorganisation de la réserve non-visitable du Laténium : Etat des lieux et projets de réaménagement

Donzé, Célestine

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2013.

The subject of this research concerns the « non-visitable » depot of the Laténium where important archaeological collections are stored. This area of 300 square meters is used for the final storage of the collections but it has lost its primary fonction: preservation area for patrimonial collection. The same can be said for a lot of heritage collections. This project aimed to analyse the...

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Comparaison de méthodes de stabilisation pour alliages cuivreux exposés en extérieur au moyen d'un oxymètre

Uldry, Stéphanie

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2014.

We found in a lot of museum collections copper based artefacts, like in historic museum, or modern art museum. In this Bachelor diploma, we will focus on outdoor bronze artefacts such as sculptures, statues or fountains. This document presents a comparison of two stabilisation treatments for copper alloys: the well-known benzotriazole and a new treatment named biopatine. The benzotriazole (BTA)...

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Rédaction d'un cahier des charges pour la conception de vitrines pour les reliquaires de Sainte-Théodora au couvent de Madgenau, Saint-Gall

Zucchetti, Gabriella

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2015.

The Cistercian convent of Magdenau has three reliquaries dating from the 17th century and containing the bones of its patron saint Theodora. These objects have been stored in the sacristy for years, but from now on, the religious institution has entrusted them to the HE-Arc of Neuchâtel in the field of their documentation and conservation-restoration. Indeed, when the reliquaries come back, the...

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Etude et identification des matériaux de rembourrage des spécimens naturalisés anciens : le cas des collections du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Neuchâtel

Bénesteau, Gaëlle

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2015.

The taxidermy is the art to shape an animal skin on a dummy, recreating the appearance of the animal during his life. The materials used to give back the volume are very varied. These stuffings can be vegetable, animal, mineral or synthetic, and have their malleability in common. The problem is that the nature of these materials is poorly documented, and unknown because of their internal and...

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Fabrication d'un conditionnement pour la mise en réserve et projet de support pour la mise en exposition d'un manteau amérindien en peau de bison

Poncet, Laurine

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2014.

This paper proposes two reflections that are common in the field of preventive conservation, namely the stocking and the exhibition of a cultural heritage artefact. The artefact in the center of this investigation is a Native American buffalo skin coat belonging to Nordamerika Native Museum in Zürich. The particularity of this item is its size of 266 cm x 232 cm. This coat has various...

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Conservation d'échantillons de mousse de sièges d'un ancien avion Caravelle 12 et propositions de matériaux / dispositifs de remplacement

Prétôt, Baptiste

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2015.

This thesis is about the seats of an old airplane Caravel dating from the early 1980’s, stored at the Air and Space Museum in Le Bourget, Paris, and which the damaged foam is likely to impede its presentation to the public. The current issue discussed here consist of three major goals, which are: propose long-term preservation techniques of the seat foam samples; propose materials or...

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Erarbeitung eines Konzepts für die Lagerungs- und Transportverpackung grossformatiger Keramikobjekte der Kantonsarchäologie Aargau

Liengme, Gaëlle

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2015.

This Bachelor thesis presents the conception of a packing design for the storage and the transport of seven large archaeological clay pots. The pots and the risks of a transport were first examined. The major risks of a transport are the physical forces, which have a great influence on the preservation of ceramics. Shocks, abrasion, vibration and pressure are the main force-related effects. The...