Come and join the team. We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a Research Associate in Conservation Science to join us on the PISTACHIO project, ‘Photonic Imaging Strategies …
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What connects geckos and adhesives in museums? How do we test materials in paintings? Learn about these and more from Science on the Sofa, the free online event from …
Together with colleagues from The Courtauld Institute of Art and Yale University, Christina Young recently published “A Review of RTI and an Investigation into the Applicability of Micro-RTI as …
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Together with colleagues from Hitachi High-Technologies Europe, Margaret Smith and Karen Thompson recently published an article in Heritage Science on the application of ion milling to the preparation and …
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Join us for Take an Object, a new exhibition inspired by objects and artworks from the Hunterian. Featuring work developed by students from our MLitt in Technical Art History, …
It was great to be able to speak with visitors of all ages last Sunday at the Glasgow Science Festival. By explaining what steam, pink panther wafers and flaky …
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How do changes in the environment cause paintings to flake? Come along and test for yourself how moisture causes the layers of paintings on wood to flake. Just as …
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