Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för Kulturvård

Evaluation of flexibility and drape properties in adhesive treated silk

Fredriksson, Amanda (2025-10-28)

This thesis investigates how flexibility and drape properties in adhesive treated silk are affected when type of adhesive, type of support fabric and concentration and ratio of adhesive are altered. Through a literature ...

Evaluating Three Sheer Support Fabrics Attached with Laid - Couching or Adhesive on Double - Sided Textiles by 2D Digital Image Correlation

Brito Caracol, Gabriel Eva (2025-10-02)

This thesis focuses on the use of sheer mesh fabrics for structural support of holes in double- sided (and occasionally also semi-transparent) textiles. In textile conservation, it is usual to treat structural damages ...

Inadvertent exposure to chemical residues in textile conservation - A risk assessment methodology

von Schantz, Henny (2025-09-11)

A range of chemical compounds has historically been used on textiles to prevent and cure insect attack. This presents several problems to conservators working with historical textiles today. Documentation of the treatments ...

Moderna kulturvägar Undersökning för värdering och urval av det moderna vägnätet enligt Trafikverkets metod för kulturvägsinventering

Ahlberg, Johanna (2025-09-04)

The Swedish Transport Administration’s task is to assess and identify the cultural values in the state road network through their evaluation method. The identified roads with high cultural values are highlighted as Roads ...

Getting to know a concrete statue named Ingeborg Collecting Data to Estimate the Risk of Potential Damage

du Bois de Nevele, Sanne (2025-09-03)

This thesis investigates the preservation challenges associated with the concrete statue named Ingeborg, created by Gerhard Henning. The primary aim is to understand the degradation processes affecting the statue and develop ...

”Backstugusittaren satt på ett kålland” - De obesuttnas trädgårdar vid sekelskiftet 1900

Hofsten, Julie von (2025-09-02)

This study examines the gardens of the landless in Västergötland, Sweden around 1900. “Landless” refers to crofters, cottage-dwellers, and lodgers who lacked land ownership and held a subordinate social and economic ...

FROM PRESERVATION TO MODERN USE -THE BENEFITS OF ADAPTIVE REUSE IN MONUMENTS-

Lindberg, Mitra (2025-04-23)

Adaptive reuse of historic buildings, which aims to make the balance between heritage preservation with modern needs and the principle of sustainability, has become a practical solution. This thesis examines how adaptive ...

Climate Adaptation from the Gardeners Perspective: A Comparative Study between Sweden and the United Kingdom

Grönlund, Emma (2024-09-17)

This thesis presents a comparative study into the practices and perspectives of 19 heritage gardeners across nine gardens in the United Kingdom and Sweden, focusing on their responses to climate change. The study encompasses ...

Shifting water-land relations: Understanding heritage through a landscape approach in the proposed biosphere reserve at Lake Hjälmaren

Nuding, Elise Mae (2024-09-10)

The Lake Hjälmaren landscape is defined by changing relationships between water and land over time and has been formatively shaped by human activity in the modern era. The last 150 years have seen a succession of wide-scale ...

Exploring the Efficacy of Adhesives in Plastic Bonding: A Comprehensive Experimental Analysis with Emphasis on PVC-P Conservation

Leotta, Thea (2024-09-10)

This research project conducted a comprehensive investigation into the long-term compatibility of six distinct adhesives with PVC-P plastic, a plastic material with a high degree of problematic characteristics in museum ...

Stabilising heritage Iron gall ink corrosion on paper and the eternal search for an ideal treatment

Lagerqvist Alidoost, Anna (2024-07-01)

This study has been conducted to investigate the complexities of iron gall ink, its degradation mechanisms and possible stabilisation methods. Iron gall ink represents a writing medium that was commonly used from the ...

Neural Radiance Fields for the Digitization of Ethnographic Collections: A Comparative Analysis of State-of-the-Art and Established Methods for the 3D Documentation of Cultural Heritage Objects

Callahan, Claire Maeve (2024-07-01)

Conventional 3D documentation utilizing Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques has been established as an accurate and comprehensible method of cultural heritage digitization. The recent development of Neural Radiance ...

The paint loss of Callmander’s stained glass windows: An investigation of the prevalence and causes behind the paint loss on Callmander and Svenska Glasmåleri AB’s stained glass windows

Eisfeldt, Victor (2024-02-06)

This MA-thesis investigates the loss of grisaille paint in the stained-glass windows created by the artist Reinhold Callmander and Svenska Glasmåleri AB, with the aim of understanding the prevalence as well as the reasons ...

Tracing Tempera through Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Analysing samples from four icons from the Nationalmuseum collection

Olivier, Nina (2024-01-30)

This thesis will analyze samples in form of cross-sections taken from four icons of the Nationalmuseum collection, two Russian, from the 18th and 19th centuries and two Greek, also from the 18th and 19th centuries, using ...

FINDING TRACES OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN Implementing personal value through visualisation as a conservation tool

Vandesompele, Inès (2024-01-30)

The organisation Docomomo International is engaged in the documentation and conservation of the built environment related to the Modern Movement. Therefore, it was essential to discuss what this means for our modernist ...