Welcome to the Popart website !
Florence, General Assembly, 20th October 2009
POPART: an international collaborative research project about
the preservation of plastic artefacts in museums
We are pleased to welcome you on the website of this international project whose aim is to investigate degradation and provide practical conservation guidance for plastic items in our cultural heritage. This work is financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme.
In the headlines
Euronews TV report about POPART
In the frame of its program "Futuris", a television team of the news channel Euronews made an 8-minute report about POPART and the issue of the preservation of plastic artefacts at the CRCC and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
See the report here, on the Euronews website.
Release of a new book : "PLASTICS - Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past"
Popart consortium is pleased to announce the new book on plastics by Brenda Keneghan and Louise Egan from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
"PLASTICS - Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past" (Archetype Publications in association with V&A)
Over the course of the past 150 years, the development and use of artificial plastics has burgeoned. Plastics are now ubiquitous and unavoidable, from the plastic bag and other items with functional uses - such as household, office, electrical (...)
