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VIEWS 3. Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-healer, Berkley, 1969. 4. Center for the Future of Museums, Museums and Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures. Version 1.0. Center for the Future of Museums/American Association of Museums. December 2008, URL [pdf]. 5. Pip Laurenson. Authenticity, Change and Loss in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Installations. Tate Papers. Autumn 2006, URL. 6. Bill Brown. Thing Theory. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 1. Things (Autumn, 2001). pp. 4. The News section is publishing diverse information on cultural heritage topics, such as on-site conservation projects reports, conferences, lectures, talks or workshops reviews, but also course reviews and any other kind of appropriate announcements. If you are involved in interesting projects and you want to share your experience with everybody else, please send us your news or announcements. For more details, such as deadlines and publication guidelines, please visit www.e-conservationline.com DANIEL CULL Conservator The Musical Instrument Museum Daniel Cull is from the West Country of the British Isles. He trained at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where he received a BSc in Archaeology, MA in Principles of conservation, and an MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums. He was later awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He currently works as a conservator at the Musical Instrument Museum and as a collaborator with e-conservation magazine. Website: http://dancull.wordpress.com Contact: daniel.cull@themim.org 8 e-conservation
REVIEWS SEM AND MICROANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS AND CONSERVATION Review by Ana Bidarra September 9-10, 2010 London, UK Organisers: The British Museum and Hitachi High Technologies Europe http://www.britishmuseum.org/... On 9 th and 10 th September 2010, the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum, in association with Hitachi High Technologies Europe, hosted a conference on the application of scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis (SEM-EDX) to the study of materials, manufacturing methods and deterioration processes of objects from ancient to contemporary cultures. The conference was attended by over 150 delegates representing 22 countries (including North, Central and South America, China, Japan, Iran and most European countries). There were 28 oral presentations and 45 posters divided in 2 sessions over the 2-days conference. The presentations focused on several areas of study, from broader applications of SEM and microanalysis techniques, to specific case studies, technological advances and limitations. The conference started with a presentation from Alexander Ball entitled How “non-destructive” is variable pressure SEM, introducing some basic concepts of variable pressure SEM focusing on the alterations caused by the technique due to the effects of rapid decompression, beam interactions between the samples and imaging gas and the contamination from the vacuum system. These effects can cause cracking, contaminations, dehydration, radiation damages, etc. It was an alert call, particularly directed to the recent possibilities of analysing entire objects, since modern equipments have bigger vacuum chambers. The first session ended with two presentations on the study of parchment biodegradation and on the study of glass beads from urns found in 1970 in an excavation in Carthage, followed by the first poster session. The second session began with a practical approach on the use of SEM in the study of surface materials at high magnification. Ineke Joosten focused on the parameters that could influence the image such as scan rotation, magnification, beam voltage, type of detector and pressure in the vacuum chamber. In the second presentation, Caroline Cartwright introduced a very interesting application of SEM to the study of the organic cores from the Iron Age Snettisham (Norfolk) torc hoard, from around 70 BC. The study added important new information regarding the manufacture of these objects. The last session was on the study of the Bedford Lemere Collection, particularly the deterioration of glass plate negatives from mid to late 19 th century. e-conservation 9
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