CHEMICAL SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LABORATORY

The course aims to provide students with a preliminary knowledge to understand the connection between the subjects characterizing their basic scientific training (e.g. Institutions of Mathematics with exercises; General Chemistry with exercises and Laboratory; Cellular Biology with elements of microbiology) and the research for Heritage science.
The main aim of the course is to understand the potentialities of technical-scientific investigation methods for the study of Cultural Heritage, their knowledge, characterization and preventive conservation.
During the course, general concepts will be given regarding the different aspects, materials and needs of the research applied to BBCC, highlighting in particular aspects such as: sustainability; connection with museums, public and private institutions, research centers; the importance of research and experimentation both in situ and in the laboratory, etc..
Through practical tests, case studies and the analysis of publications, the skills, that students will acquire in subsequent corse, will be highlighted and the complexities related to the research in the field of BBCC will be highlighted: the need for replicas in the laboratory, the need for certified materials and / or procedures, the application of traditional and advanced methods of investigation, invasive and non-invasive analytical methods, etc.. Guided tours of the city of Venice, local museums and artists' studios will be promoted in order to show the connections with the territory and the environment.

Knowledge and Understanding
Knowledge and understanding of the relationships between science and heritage
Understand the connection between theoretical aspects of conservation and practical intervention on heritage
Understand why scientific research on BBCCs is needed.
Understand the connections between history, art, materials, technologies and the environment
Ability to apply knowledge and under standing
Ability to assess the conservation needs of a BBCC
Ability to assess connections between sciences (chemical, physical, biological, etc.) and BBCCs
Ability to apply concepts acquired in basic BBCC training corse

Basic knowledge of inorganic and organic chemistry, physics and general culture. These are theoretical contents and skills that the student enrolled in the course of study has already acquired in the basic training courses.

The materials of art and architecture: observation of different types of materials (stone, ceramic, paper, pictorial, etc.), use of some basic investigation techniques for the recognition of peculiar characteristics and diseases of degradation.
Invasive techniques and non-invasive techniques for the study of materials: some examples and practical applications
Analysis and discussion of some case studies
Study visits and meetings with museum conservatories

To be defined
Selected articles provided by the professor

The exam includes an oral interview on the teaching material delivered during the course and a critical discussion of an article/scientific research, selected after discussion with the professor

Frontal lesson, laboratory exercises, study visits.

Italian

Teaching leanguage
Italian
Italian/English in the case of Erasmus students

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