Innovative and affordable service for the Preventive Conservation monitoring of individual Cultural Artefacts during display, storage, handling and transport

Kick-off Meeting

Apr 10, 2019 | Events, Kick-off

The CollectionCare project has been launched!

The project, which was granted with nearly 6M € for a period of three years, aims to develop an affordable system for the preventive conservation of cultural artefacts of museums and small-to-medium size collections that often cannot count on a sophisticated environmental control systems or on qualified personnel to maintain them.

The innovation is based on the combination of the latest advances in sensor electronics, wireless communications, material degradation models, big data and cloud computing. An IoT device, a node, is attached to an individual cultural artefact. This node continually monitors the environmental conditions at any given time and place, either during exhibition, storage, handling or transport. This information is stored and analysed in the cloud with advanced multi-material degradation models that allow users to estimate the evolution of degradation and to suggest preventive conservation guidelines.

A consortium formed by 17 partners from Spain, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Denmark and Belgium brought together five universities and research centres, six partners between small-medium sized museums, collections and institutions that own museums, two technology companies, one cultural management company, one conservation-restoration company and one shipping company.

Consortium partners:

  1. Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. Coordinator.
  2. Uniwersytet Warszawski (UW), Poland.
  3. Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (URO1), Italy.
  4. Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler For Arkitektur, Design Og Konservering (KADK), Denmark.
  5. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Netherlands.
  6. Latvijas Valsts Koksnes Ķīmijas institūts (LSIWC), Latvia.
  7. Diputación Foral de Álava (DFA), Spain.
  8. The Ethnographic Open Air Museum of Latvia (OAML), Latvia.
  9. Institut Valencià de Cultura (IVC), Spain.
  10. Koninklijke Musea Voor Kunst En Geschiedenis (KMKG), Belgium.
  11. Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (IEEE), Greece.
  12. The Royal Danish Collection. Rosenborg (RDC), Denmark.
  13. SIGFOX (SGF), France.
  14. ATOS Spain SA (ATOS), Spain.
  15. PostScriptum Communication Informatics (PS), Greece.
  16. Conservazione Beni Culturali (CBC), Italy.
  17. Van Kralingen BV (HvK).

 

KICK-OFF MEETING

4th and 5th April 2019
Meeting place: Koninklijke Musea Voor Kunst En Geschiedenis. Brussels, BELGIUM

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