Blog for CollectionCare

The CollectionCare project is aimed to develop an innovative system for preventive conservation of cultural artefacts targeting the needs of small to medium-sized museums and collections. The project is funded by European commission’s Horizon2020. 

The Royal Danish Academy is contributing to the CollectionCare project with advanced computer-generated degradation models of canvas paintings and experimental verification of the model by laboratory experiments.

The team from the Royal Danish Academy includes associate professor Cecil Krarup Andersen, associate professor Mikkel Scharff and research assistant Astrid Valbjørn from Institute for Conservation as well as associate professor Daniel Sang-Hoon Lee and postdoc Namseok KIM from Institute for Architecture and Technology.

This blog will be used to update readers about our work and to disseminate news from the CollectionCare consortium. 

CollectionCare integrates current research and technology advances, Internet-of-Things (IoT) monitoring systems, wireless communication, big data, cloud computing and multi-material degradation models into a single system.

The system will monitor environmental conditions with wireless sensors for each individual museum object at any place, either at exhibition, storage, during handling or  transport.

The data collected will be transmitted to a cloud computing platform for big data where it will be automatically stored and analyzed with advanced multi-material degradation models. This will be done in order to minimize degradation and ensure the long-term preservation of the collections. 

The CollectionCare project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 814624.