In the feature “Collection in Focus”, we highlight remarkable digitised heritage items and surprising discoveries from the UvA’s heritage collections. These collections are managed and made accessible by Allard Pierson.

Ignacio Sánchez Abenante has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritsen Thesis Award 2026 with his Master's thesis entitled ‘When Blue Does Not Glow: Material Factors Influencing the Detectability of Egyptian Blue ...

As legacy technologies become obsolete, expertise is scattered, and vital artworks face loss, media art collections are at risk. EMBARK builds a pan-European, interdisciplinary network to share knowledge, develop ...

Prof. Katrien Keune is the newly-appointed Chair of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+ (NICAS), an institute carrying out interdisciplinary research that encompasses the fields of conservation, ...

The installation artwork The Sleeping Beauties (1990) by performance pioneer Lydia Schouten (1948) from the collection Museum Arnhem was researched and conservation treated in collaboration with the University of ...

Dr Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo has recently joined the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded under the Horizon Europe programme. In the two-year ...

Carolina Torres, graduate of the Master’s programme in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis award 2025 with her Master’s ...

In a recently published article in the journal NPJ Heritage Science, researchers from the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam show how Rembrandt tuned his choice of pigments to arrive at a high-contrast, ...

Everyone knows that oil and water do not mix. But it turns out that water actually plays a very important role in the stability of oil paintings, such as those by Rembrandt or Vermeer. Water moves through the layers ...

A multidisciplinary research team coordinated by Maarten van Bommel, professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded 900,000 euros funding by the Dutch Research Council NWO ...