Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, NL

ARCHLAB Available facility: ICN Data & scientific records

The  access offered by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage regards information stored in documentation files of the ICN library in Amsterdam.
Information concerns typical objects and materials which were previously investigated at ICN, as paintings, textiles, furniture, metals, glass, ceramics, leather, plastics, pigments, binding media, varnish, resin, paper, books, inks, etc., all referred to periods varying from pre-history to date.

Typical information consists of historical documentation, analytical data, images, and reports on samples (including cross-sections). The information is partly registered in Dutch, partly in English, partly in German.

An online database is available at http://www.icn.nl/bibliotheek/bibliotheekcatalogus. However, Users can have a physical access also to a large collection more than 8500 reference materials including all of the typical materials of cultural heritage mentioned above. This reference collection is not available on-line and its consultation requires the presence at ICN
During their visits, the Users can ask additional specific access to instrumentation and related expertise, if necessary to compare immediately the properties of their samples with those of the reference materials stored in the collection. Instrumentation offered is optical microscopy, SEM-EDX, XRF, XRD, FTIR, RAMAN, HPLC-PDA, LC-MS and GC-MS.

Provider’ general information:

ICN

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WELCOME DESK Contact Person:

Name: Dr. ing. Maarten R. van Bommel