Nauki chemiczne a konserwacja zabytków : stan, potrzeby i perspektywy

• Authors: Domasłowski Wiesław

Title variants

EN

CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND MONUMENTS CONSERVATION. THE CONDITION, NEEDS AND PERSPECTIVES

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author presents the problems as he sees them himself as professor of chemistry, long-time director of the Institute of Monuments and Conservation, attached to the Copernicus University in Toruń. For more than twenty years he has been directing technological studies and conservation of stone monuments in Poland. The author refers to a number of conservation works undertaken in this field in Europe. He brings to the fore a research process preceding today’s conservation practice in the field of monuments of fine arts. In Poland some dozens of representatives of natural sciences cooperate on a regular base in the execution of conservation works. Polish conferences attended by specialists, held in 1981 and 1982, have shown a serious contribution of exact sciences. It has also been demonstrated that it is not possible to train conservators of works of fine arts without the help of chemists, microbiologists and physicists. Their task is not only to adapt methods of exact sciences for the examination of works of art but also to study materials, find out reasons for their destruction, analyze their condition, choose conservation materials and means, determine properties of the materials and, when necessary, to modify them. The author pays much attention to the coordination of studies. In view of the non-existence of the institute of conservation, it is necessary to create possibilités for such coordination in order to join forces operating in various centres. A lack of a specialized Polish magazine and limited access to foreign publications does not facilitate this task. In the form of thirty detailed theses the author presents main trends which should be continued in Polish investigations, basing on the existing higher institutes, state-owned monuments, conservation workshops, scientific and research institutes in different branches. He also puts forward a number of general postulates, especially in the field of coordination of studies, programming, information, scientific trial periods etc.

Keywords

PL

nauki chemiczne a konserwacja zabytków; działalność chemików konserwatorów; tematyka badawcza realizowana przez chemików, fizyków i konserwatorów; udział chemików w badaniach i pracach konserwatorskich

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1982
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 173-176

Dates

published

1982

Contributors

author

Domasłowski Wiesław

• prof. dr, Instytut Zabytkoznawstwa i Konserwatorstwa Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu