November 2014 News

Participants and instructors of the 2014 XRF Boot Camp pose together at the Fowler Museum at UCLA

2014 XRF Boot Camp co-organized by IPCH and the Getty Conservation Institute

November 25, 2014
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) hosted the 2nd XRF Boot Camp at the Getty Villa November 18-21, 2014. The workshop is part of the GCI’s Research into Practice...

International collaboration in photography conservation is the focus of a conference at the State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg

November 21, 2014
Paul Messier, renowned Boston-based conservator of photographs and works on paper, presents photograph conservation authentication studies at the international conference...
Artistic rendering of the Mercurian meteorite by Michael Anderson. Image taken by Fred E. Davis and provided courtesy of the Yale Peabody Museum; side of cube is 1 cm

Rare Mercurian meteorite 3D scanned at IPCH's Digitization Lab

November 18, 2014
A meteorite that may have originated from the planet Mercury and estimated to be 4562.8 ± 0.3 million-years-old was brought to the IPCH Digitization Lab by the Yale Peabody...
Students of the Rhön-Gymnasium, the Director Edith Degenhardt, and the project leader Günter Henneberger, seen here receiving the Simon Snopkowski Award in the Emperor's Hall of the Munich Residenz, Germany

2014 Simon Snopkowski Award given to the Rhön-Gymnasium Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale

November 18, 2014
Documentation, restoration, and renovation of the abandoned Jewish cemetery in Bad Neustadt, Germany, a project carried out by high school-aged students from the Rhön-...

Dialogues in Heritage Science: Large scale non-invasive scientific imaging and analysis of wall paintings at the UNESCO site of Mogao Caves along the Silk Road

November 12, 2014
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 at 4:30pm at the Environmental Science Center (21 Sachem Street, 1st Floor, Lecture Hall 110) Abstract: The UNESCO world heritage site, Mogao...

IPCH members attend symposium on Merdardo Rosso at the Center for Italian Modern Art

November 11, 2014
Dr. Erin Mysak and Chelsea Graham attended a symposium that addressed a recent investigation into Medardo Rosso’s approach to serial sculpture, focused on the Bambino...