Mémoire de master : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2021.
The Collections Centre of the Swiss National Museum, located in Affoltern-am-Albis, in the canton of Zurich, conserves a projection and enlargement lantern designed by a well-known local company selling projection and photography equipment. This device, dated from the early 20th century, has the particularity of having its lantern made of blued steel. This surface treatment offering both...
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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 bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2018.
Over the last few years, two 16th century stained glass windows, exposed at the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen since 2009, have been subject to corrosion on their lead cames. The corrosion products consist of white or grey efflorescence. The museum would like to gain insight on the deterioration mechanisms of both of these very different corrosion forms in order to find out whether the...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2018.
The “Cité de l'Automobile - Collection Schlumpf” counts among its collections more than 650 vehicles, 250 of which are preserved in the museum's storage areas, an environment with little control. The issue of this thesis concerns the reactivation of corrosion present at the underside (or chassis-platform) of a Renault 25 Limousine. Assembled in the late 80s, this car entered the museum's...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration, 2018.
This Bachelor thesis is part of the research project « EtICAL » led by Dr. Chistian Degrigny within the division of Applied Research and Development of the Haute Ecole Arc de Conservation-Restauration of Neuchâtel, under the coordination of Agnès Gelbert-Miermon. This project has made it possible to create an inventory of the aluminum alloys found in the Swiss patrimonial collections and to...
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