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Nuremberg. Houston
Nuremberg. Lecture. Conservation department
Evening Reception
The Evening Reception – An exclusive time travel to the Kongress Bar Just slightly above the huge area of Oktoberfest a small gem of Munich nightlife hot spots is exclusively waiting for us. You might have heard of the “Wirtschaftswunder” (lit. economic miracle), a term describing Germany’s blazing fast recovery after WWII. Politicians over here [...]
Maria Siegmantel
Lecture | Adhesives for Silicone Rubber Maria Siegmantel Abstract | For the last 40 years, silicone rubber has been used in modern art, design objects and technical objects of cultural value. Restoring damages as cracks appeared to pose problems, since then there are only a few ways to adhere silicone rubber due to its antiadhesive [...]
Brenda Keneghan
Brenda Keneghan took her primary degree in Chemistry and her PhD in Materials Science and worked for several years in academic research before joining the Conservation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1993. She has undertaken an extensive condition survey of the objects made from plastic among the various collections of the museum [...]