Michiel Vermaat has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis prize 2024 with his master's thesis, entitled ‘Seeing Beyond the Surface: Investigating Methods of Visualising Consolidants in Wood Borer-Damaged ...

In the second half of October, the second-year students of the MA Heritage and Memory Studies undertook the annual excursion. This year, the students travelled to Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina together with Prof. ...

In a paper in Macromolecules, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present detailed insights into the polymerization process of drying oils in paint. Using ...

Jorien Duivenvoorden has been appointed Assistant Professor of Conservation of Historic Interiors in a Socio-material Context at the University of Amsterdam. Her work centers around climate-induced material ...

The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) of the Faculty of Humanities is looking to fill one PhD position as part of the research team 'Concrete Colonialism: Architecture and Heritage in ...

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint. Using sophisticated ...

How can museums reduce energy consumption and widen indoor climate tolerances safely? How did black woollens quality standards in the 18th-century develop and change over time? With funding from the Dutch Science ...

The UvA Conservation and Restoration Department is excited to announce that it will host a second edition of the masterclass The Dutch Method Unfolded on the wax-resin lining of paintings in January 2025. The Getty ...