The Science of Art: object-focussed research in our museums (Film 1)

The University of Cambridge Museums ‘Science of Art’ event brought together heritage scientists and conservators to share and celebrate research projects from across a number of museums and collections.

Film 1: Main presentation timings:

0:00:00-0:01:25 Welcome from Rupert Featherstone of the Hamilton Kerr Institute

0:01.25-0: 02.45 Jo McPhee introduces the Science of Art day

0:02.45-0:09.45 Jo McPhee “The Power of Objects – an introduction to the University of Cambridge Museums”

0:09.45-0:33.58 Sophie Rowe “The quest for an affordable method to identify plastics in collections”

0:34:00-0:58:05 Paola Ricciardi “Reflections on the identification of copper sulphates in 16th Century Flemish art”

0:58:05-1:25:03 Adele Wright “Investigating the making of landscape oil sketches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”

1:25:10- 1:55:38 Jennifer Marchant “Documenting conservation: challenges and opportunities”