This essay concerns the reconstruction of historic traditional handicraft processes in wood cleaving and bending wood to bentwood boxes. It is based on two ethnology publications from the 1940’s and their source material ...

Contemporary art is often made of more short-lived material than traditional works of art; also the material is usually used in a non-traditional way. Western conservation theories aim to preserve object´s authenticity, ...

The city of Kiruna is about to transform, due to the expansion of the iron ore mine that is dominating the city’s labour market. The built environment is at the same time a cultural heritage of national interest. The ...

This research starts with the analysis of the funeral coat of arms of Pehr Stålhammar, dated 1701, as a case material of matte paint in need of consolidation. This study aims to assess the effect of four consolidants on ...

The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) indicates preservation in situ as a first option and encourages public access unless it is incompatible with protection and management. ...

The purpose of this thesis is to study how thatched roofs in Sweden and Japan have changed their characters over the time from a roof for residence to a museum object and how they are represented at open-air museums today ...

In 2011 Palestine became a member state of UNESCO and ratified the World Heritage Convention. When Palestine became a State Party of the convention a new arena, the super bowl of cultural heritage, known as the World ...

This study investigates the cause and progression of the ongoing deterioration in a canvas wall painting from the 1760s in the Green Chamber at the von Echstedt manor. In an area approximately 170 x 170 cm on the south ...

The purpose of this study is to do a garden-historical survey of the residential gardens of the swedish million program to complement the Swedish garden history. They are in both a time and knowledge gap where it is neither ...

ABSTRACT This thesis describes the investigation carried out during the development of guidelines for dendrochronological sampling in listed church buildings in Sweden. Dendrochronology is a dating method of historic ...