Resilient Heritage Conservation

A cross-disciplinary group of researchers at the Royal Danish Academy have joined efforts in a multifaceted approach to unite our efforts and ensure a more efficient and sustainable preservation of historic houses and cultural heritage collections in houses, museums, and archives. 

The aim is to investigate how buildings, objects and collections in heritage institutions (museums, historic houses, libraries, and archives) are best preserved in a sustainable way with a minimum use of resources. 

The group has a general interest in how materials in buildings and objects interact with the ambient climate and how this interaction affects object properties physically and chemically. The goal is to use this knowledge to design and optimize integrated preventive and active conservation solutions.