Project description
New technology to better preserve old artefacts
Prevention is better than a cure, but for the preservation of cultural heritage this is no easy task. Degradation of movable tangible cultural heritage can be significantly increased by disadvantageous and unstable climate conditions, light and pollution. The purpose of preventive conservation is to avoid and minimise future degradation and loss of cultural heritage. The EU-funded APACHE project will develop new tools to control and prevent such degradation. These will focus on multiscale materials modelling to predict degradation of art-related materials as well as wireless sensors to provide a smart, user friendly and low-cost system to detect an unsuitable microclimate. Also, including pollution absorbents and temperature and humidity regulators will compensate fluctuations.
Objective
Most Cultural Heritage objects housed by museums are often stored under unsuitable climate conditions. APACHE will develop a cutting edge technology to control and prevent the degradation of such patrimony. The novel approach is based on three pillars: 1) advanced sensing and absorbing materials to control the artifacts’ environment; 2) modeling to define the threshold of artifacts’ degradation and to discriminate between the need for preventive or remedial conservation; 3) remote control of the works of art stressors. The unique combination of these pillars will reduce to the lowest possible level the costs actually required by conventional technology for art conservation. New generation of active and intelligent display cases, crates, and storage boxes, will be implemented thanks to: i) The unique APACHE partnership, comprising the most important experts in the three aforementioned pillars; ii) The development of easy-to-use sensing devices able to communicate through Wireless Sensor Networks and Radio Frequency Identification Devices thanks to Industry 4.0-5.0 ICT technologies, granting the optimal environmental conditions around the art objects. Multiscale models integrated in an open simulation environment will be used to predict the degradation of artefacts and set the properties of sensors (detection limits) and polyfunctional absorbents. APACHE includes small, medium, and large museums exhibiting representative variety of display and storage conditions. For instance, the Venice Peggy Guggenheim Collection features one of the most important collections of modern/contemporary art, which experiences highly unfavorable environmental conditions, difficult to control with conventional tools. Centre Pompidou and National Museum of Hungary possess a vast amount of artefacts stored in deposits (e.g. in crates and boxes). Moreover, a decision-making tool composed by a modular set of decision trees will be offered to end-users to guide them through the best solutions.
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- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensors
- humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary art
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50019 Firenze
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00185 Roma
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T12 YN60 Cork
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WC1E 6BT London
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70013 Irakleio
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412 96 Goteborg
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157 72 ATHINA
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90046900 Porto Alegre
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04347 Leipzig
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00040 Pomezia (Rm)
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1000 Ljubljana
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80539 Munchen
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80686 Munchen
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30123 Venezia
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30121 VENEZIA
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
42015 Correggio Re
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
75116 Paris
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
20090 Trezzano sul Naviglio
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445 80 Bohus
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164 80 Stockholm
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00153 Roma
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00186 Roma
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75191 Paris
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1001 Ljubljana
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1088 Budapest
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50121 FIRENZE
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10128 New York Ny
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