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The Vesalius of the Enkhuizen Librije
The Librije in Enkhuizen is the only seventeenth-century city library in the Netherlands that has been preserved in its original location. On the occasion of its 400th anniversary in 2015, the Foundation Librije Enkhuizen had one of its highlights restored, De humani...
Leather upholstery of a chair
Every now and again clients or acquainted conservators come to us with objects consisting partly of leather. This chair is such an example and was brought to us by upholsterer André Lunsingh. The owner wanted to save the leather of the chair's seat, which had suffered...
Paviljoen Welgelegen – Haarlem
Welgelegen Pavilion, since 1930 the seat of the Provincial Council of North Holland, has a long and eventful history. Built in the revolutionary year 1789 for banker Henry Hope, it later became a retreat for King Louis Napoleon and Wilhelmina of Prussia, the mother of...
The library of Amerongen Castle
Amerongen Castle was built between 1674 and 1680 on the site of a medieval castle that had been burned down by the French in 1673. The gardens still contain historic elements such as a conservatory dating from the 1890s. In 1918 the former German Kaiser Wilhelm II...
Paper butterflies
These beautiful paper butterflies are almost indistinguishable from real ones. The paper wings in the 19th century, painted by hand. The butterfly enclosure belongs to the collection of the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden. All butterflies stuck with pins in the wooden...
The Leo Haks collection: Balinese drawings
Leo Haks gathered as one of the first pre-war, modern Balinese drawings. The damaged part of his collection he showed by restoring us in 2009-2010 before he left auction his collection of drawings in Singapore. The drawing shown here was created by Ida Bagus Nyoman...
Parchment charters and wax seals
With some regularity we preserve and restore charter collections. Often, they are folded up, have a lot of surface dirt and their attached wax seals are damaged. We house the charters in the so called 'standard 3-d charter storage'. Restoration Firstly, we unfold the...
the Dollhouse of Lita de Ranitz
In 2013 we commissioned by the Hague Historical Museum and in cooperation with wood, glass, textile restorers and the interior and exterior of the dollhouse restored. This dollhouse is a display cabinet with six rooms that give a very detailed image of a Hague villa...
A collection Herbariums of the National herbarium Leiden
The restoration and conservation of herbaria in three phases During the first phase, 25 Japanese book herbaria restored. Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) she received during his stay at Deshima in Japan between 1823 and 1830 from his Japanese colleagues and...
The Gorilla of papier-mâché and real bones
The anatomical model of the gorilla was made in the 19th century by the physician and anatomist Louis Auzoux. The gorilla was purchased in 2014 by the Boerhaave Museum. The model of the gorilla originally consisted of 104 items, of which there are about 90 now. The...
Gilt leather and parchment in the Pieterskerk in Leiden
In February 2014 RNA conserved the gilt leather wall hanging and parchment name registries in the Churchwardens Room of the Pieterskerk in Leiden. The gilt leather and parchment in this room - the room is used only for special occasions - had suffered damage in recent...
Beautiful 17th century manuscript restored
This book was the last book in a large conservation project of over 30.000 books carried out for the Ets Haim Library in Amsterdam. The project took more than 10 years and consisted of doing damage assessment; condition reports; setting up a conservation plan and...
The ledger of Amsterdam’s first bank
In 1609, the Amsterdam city council established the Wisselbank (Exchange Bank) and housed it in the town hall. The bank valued foreign currency and gave common, Dutch money in return. The bank could pay the money in the form of a bill of exchange, actually the...
de Boekentoren – Gent
A condition assessment was made for the library of the University of Ghent in cooperation with the conservator-restorers of the UB, with Liv Tubeex and Lieve Watteeuw in 2008. The condition of almost 47 km of books was assessed through sampling. The indoor climate in...