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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...
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-...
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...

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...
The famous baptistry of St. John and Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower of Florence, Italy

Director Stefan Simon represents IPCH at ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence

November 11, 2014
From November 9-14, 2014, in Florence, Italy, the 18th International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) General Assembly and Scientific Symposium is taking place. The...

Yale IPCH members attend IRUG Conference in Boston, MA

November 11, 2014
Stefan Simon and Erin Mysak attended the Eleventh Infrared and Raman Users Group (IRUG) Conference at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), which took place on November 5-7...