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Olfactory Heritage

Cecilia Bembibre working on a olfactory heritage project
Olfactory heritage is an aspect of cultural heritage concerning smells that are meaningful to a community due to their connections with significant places, practices, objects or traditions, and can therefore be considered part of the cultural legacy for future generations.聽

We know the hundreds of scents that we perceive every day have an impact on the way we think, feel and behave. Less is known about how they affect the way we engage with history and heritage: part of our research explores how certain smells can help the retention of memories and knowledge in a museum context, make heritage more inclusive and promote well-being.

    Headspace solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) of a historic book VOCs at the Heritage Science Lab at 香港六合彩中特网

    Olfactory Heritage Science

    Our approach to olfactory heritage research is interdisciplinary, with unique expertise form a heritage science perspective. We have developed a framework to identify smells of cultural significance and study them via chemical and sensory characterisation at the Heritage Science Laboratory. Find out more about olfactory heritage science and our framework to research heritage scents.

    Historic brush being prepared for VOC analysis at the Heritage Science Lab at 香港六合彩中特网

    Olfactory heritage projects

    At 香港六合彩中特网 Institute for Sustainable Heritage, we have been researching olfactory heritage since 2010. As a result, we have developed collaborative projects involving partners in academia, heritage and industry. Find out more about our current and past projects.

    We engage in discussions with scientists, heritage and policy professionals in a variety of expert forums; our findings are published in leading academic journals in the heritage science, conservation, history, chemistry and cultural studies. Our work has reached a wider audience and engaged the public in a conversation about smell and heritage.聽

    Media Engagement
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    Publications
    • M. Strli膷, J. Thomas, T. Trafela, L. Cs茅falvayov谩, I. Kralj Cigi膰, J. Kolar, M. Cassar: 鈥淢aterial Degradomics: on the Smell of Old Books鈥, Anal Chem. 81 (2009) 8617-8622.
    • M. Strli膷, E. Menart, I. Kralj Cigi膰, G. de Bruin, J. Kolar, M. Cassar: 鈥淓mission of volatiles and reactive oxygen species during degradation of iron gall ink鈥, Polym. Degrad. Stab., 95 (2010) 66-71.
    • M. Strli膷, I. Kralj Cigi膰, A. Mo啪ir, G. de Bruin, J. Kolar, M. Cassar: 鈥淭he Effect of Volatile Organic Compounds and Hypoxia on Paper Degradation鈥,聽Polym Degrad. Stab., 96 (2011) 608-615.
    • K. Curran, M. Strli膷: 鈥淧olymers and Volatiles: Using VOC Analysis for Improved Conservation of Plastic and Rubber Objects鈥, Stud. Conserv., 60 (2015) 1-14.
    • Bembibre, C; Strli膷, M; (2017) Smell of heritage: a framework for the identification, analysis and archival of historic odours. Heritage Science, 5 (1) 10.1186/s40494-016-0114-1).
    • Bembibre Jacobo, C; Barratt, S; Vera, L; Strli膷, M; (2017) Smelling the past: a case study for identification, analysis and archival of historic pot-pourri as a heritage smell. In: Bridgland, J, (ed.) ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference Preprints, Copenhagen, 4-8 September 2017. (pp. p. 1601). Paris: International Council of Museums.
    • K. Curran, M. Underhill, J. Grau-Bove, T. Fearn, L. T. Gibson, M. Strli膷: 鈥漇niffing out Decay: classifying degraded modern polymeric museum artefacts by their smell鈥, Angew. Chem., 57 (2018) 7336-7340, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201712278.
    • F. Portoni, J. Grau-Bov茅, M. Strli膷: 鈥淎 non-invasive, non-destructive technique to quantify naphthalene emission rates from museum objects鈥, Heritage Science 7 (2019) #58.