During a long career at the Institute for the Study, Restoration and Conservation of Cultural
Property, Nicholas Copernicus University, the author has observed that most of the objects …

The colonization of cultural heritage by microorganisms is a planetary problem occurring in
all countries, under any climate and on any type of object. Microbial aggression results in …

Museum artefacts are generally stored for a long period in repositories and are prone to
microbiological colonisation. The goal of this research was to assess the risk of …

The importance of microbial impacts in the alteration and deterioration of cultural artefacts
made of mineral, metallic or organic materials has been widely acknowledged in the course …

Microorganisms (bacteria, archaea and fungi), in addition to lichens and insect pests, cause
problems in the conservation of cultural heritage because of their biodeteriorative potential …

Biodeterioration has drawn the attention of different specialists who started to cooperate and
to understand the need of joint research to have a picture as comprehensive as possible of …

Mural paintings and stone monuments are exposed to natural and man-made hazards for
time spans sometimes longer than 10,000 years without total decay. On the other hand, a …

The bioremediation intervention was performed by utilisation both of whole bacterial cell of a
selected strain, and purified enzymes in solution by swab, paper-disk and brush …

In particular, three different aspects of the interactions between substrate and microbes were
considered:(i) the ecology of microbial communities developing on works of art;(ii) the …

Cultural heritage, the term now utilized to cover the immensely diverse mass of documents
of all types upon which our societies confer a particular artistic, historic or ethnologic value …