Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, NL

ARCHLAB Available facility: OCW-RCE Data & scientific records

The  access offered by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands regards information stored in documentation files of the OCW-RCE library in Amsterdam.
Information concerns typical objects and materials which were previously investigated at OCW-RCE, 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.cultureelerfgoed.nl/organisatie/archief-bibliotheek-collecties. 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 OCW-RCE.
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:

OCW-RCE

Website address:

WELCOME DESK Contact Person:

Name: Dr. Ineke Joosten