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CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE - A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
Maria Cristina TIMAR
Prof. Dr. Chim. - Universitatea "Transilvania"
din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036 Brasov,
Romania
Tel.: +40 268 412921/192.
E-mail:
cristinatimar@unitbv.ro
Lidia GURAU
Conf. Dr. Ing. - Universitatea "Transilvania" din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036 Brasov, Romania
Emanuela BELDEAN
Sef. Lucr. Dr. Ing. - Universitatea "Transilvania"
din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036 Brasov,
Romania
Alin OLARESCU
Sef. Lucr. Dr. Ing. - Universitatea "Transilvania"
din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036 Brasov,
Romania
Mihaela POROJAN
Sef. Lucr. Dr. Ing. - Universitatea "Transilvania"
din Brasov - Facultatea de Industria Lemnului
Address: B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, 500036 Brasov,
Romania
"Conservation depends on a
continuing flow of scientific research to tell
us what we need to know about materials, treatments
and techniques…"
Alastair McCapra, Chief Executive ICO
Abstract: The scientific
investigation regarding conservation of cultural
heritage aims to identify the type of materials,
to establish the real state of conservation and
to understand the causes that led to the materials
/ object degradation and deterioration, essential
issues necessary to elaborate an adequate restoration-conservation
concept. The paper highlights the importance of
scientific investigations in restoration-conservation,
presenting the main types of investigation techniques
employed in the case of furniture and other wooden
objects. Moreover, there are presented some preliminary
results of a new research project aiming at developing
and originally implementing a methodological instrument
for advanced scientific research in furniture
restoration-conservation. These results are referring
to the substantiation of the methodology of characterising
and identifying materials for furniture restoration-conservation
employing optical microscopy and FT-IR analysis.
Key words: restoration-conservation,
wood, furniture, microscopy, FT-IR.
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