Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
HS Academy webinar 9/2022: Olfactory heritage: preserving the smell of sites and collections
IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research. We would like to invite you to the 9/2022 HS Academy webinar "Olfactory heritage: preserving the smell of sites and collections" that will take place on November 8th, 2022 at 3 p.m. (Rome time).
The speaker,
Cecilia Bembibre (UCL), will present a talk on Olfactory Heritage. After decades
of engaging with heritage primarily through our eyes, museums are discovering the value of a
multisensory approach to collection curation and interpretation. Smells, for example, are linked to
aspects of heritage like traditions and tourism; they stand as symbols of a shared past and enhance
visitors' museum experience. Working with scents in heritage sites presents, however, a series of
conservation and interpretation issues which research in the emerging field of olfactory heritage
seeks to address. In this presentation, we will review methodological challenges for heritage smell
preservation and presentation, and reveal some of the concerns of heritage professionals around
challenges posed by the introduction of scents as new volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the
gallery space, with notes towards developing best practices.
Join webinar
09/2022, "Olfactory heritage: Preserving the smell of sites and collections", on
November 8th 2022, at
3.00 p.m. Rome time.
More
information and registration here:
https://www.iperionhs.eu/webinar-9-2022/
If you are interested in watching the video recordings of past webinars, you can visit http://www.iperionhs.eu/webinar-series/ or the E-RIHS Youtube channel.
3 Nov 2022
