w 28 | In Images cnrsI InternatIonal magazIne 01 Preservation For 50 years, France’s prestigious center for heritage preservation has been hard at work, using cutting-edge technology to protect some of the world’s oldest remaining documents. Preserving Ancient Documents 02 BY vahé ter mInassIan T Galerie de l’Evolution building,located in1 a Mecca for conservation.he fifth and sixth floors of the GrandeParis’s Jardin des Plantes, are home to one ofthe country’s main institutions for heritagepreservation: the CRCC, Here, chemists, physicists, and microbiologists combine their efforts to study how graphic material and other documents deteriorate over time. The Center was founded in 1963 to analyze the mold that had ravaged libraries during the Second World War. A better understanding of the phenomenon would enable scientists to slow it down and, eventually, contain it. Since its creation, the CRCC has obviously evolved and extended its scope of research. In Paris, ety of fields, such as leather and parchment, photo- hotothèque- most of its premises now house specialists in a vari P : b. leterrier/cnrs on the online version of the magazine: hotos is availablephoto gallerya > www.cnrs.fr/cnrsmagazine ©P
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