News

On Wednesday January 27th at 14:00 (CET) Indra Kneepkens will defend her PhD thesis, titled: Masterful Mixtures: Practical aspects of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century oil paint formulation.

Researchers of the NICAS partner project 'Fundamental Molecular Understanding of Oil Painting Degradation' have published a new article where they use infrared spectroscopy to follow the fate of zinc ions in zinc white paint films.

New publications available from NICAS research projects 'Back to the Objects' and 'Assessing Islamic Carpet Production'.

NICAS is an advisory partner of a new SBMK project on the preservation of modern photographic works of art in museum collections.

New applications welcome for six positions available in the Andrew W. Mellon Program ‘An International Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science’.

We are happy to announce that the new research project 'Crystallization Damage at the Interfaces of Artworks' started this September.

The volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference on Modern Oil Paints that was held in Amsterdam in 2018.

Research output of the NWO-funded KIEM project Interviews in Conservation Research is now available for research.

With these grants, NICAS launches a funding scheme for projects in which museums and heritage collections collaborate with academic partners.

The NICAS website now includes a Media page. On this page you can watch video registrations of presentations and lectures we organise.