E-RIHS.CZ is the Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science that supports research on heritage interpretation, preservation, documentation and management. The E-RIHS.CZ mission is to deliver integrated access to expertise, data, technologies and facilities through a standardized approach, and to integrate leading Czech facilities into an organisation with a clear identity and a strong cohesive role within the global Heritage Science community with direct connection to the European LRI E-RIHS. The distributed platform will offer a wide portfolio of services and activities efficiently distributed among 9 institutions aiming to propose solutions to the needs of the Heritage Science community and authorities.
Fixed facilities (FIXLAB)
“Vincenc Strouhal” climatic wind tunnel (ITAM)
X‐ray tomography laboratory (ITAM)
Neutron Physics Laboratory (NPI)
Laboratory of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NPI)
Laboratory of mineralogical microanalysis (IIC)
CE-NANO Lab – Laboratory of Nanoindentation and Experimental Micromechanics of Materials (FCE CTU)
Radiochemical laboratory (FNSPE CTU)
Laboratory of Textile Conservation (UCT)
Research Laboratory of Degradation and Preservation of Synthetic and Natural Polymers (UCT)
Laboratory of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials Conservation (UCT)
Laboratory of Metal Corrosion and Conservation Research (UCT)
The Laboratory of Glass and Ceramics (UCT)
ITAM material analyses laboratories
X-ray fluorescence laboratory (FNSPE CTU)
Laboratory of X-ray diffraction and material characterizations (FNSPE CTU)
Electrical Laboratory (FCE CTU)
Environmental Laboratory (FCE CTU)
EC – Experimental Centre (FCE CTU)
Mobile laboratory (MOLAB)
ELSM – Expert Laboratory of Structural Mechanics (FCE CTU)
FMVR LAB – Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Virtual Reality (FCE CTU)
Portable analytical laboratory (IIC)
Knowledge and archive laboratories (ARCHLAB)
Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (IAP) and Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno (IAB) provide expertise based on the long-term development of working groups, whose experience and know-how have been acquired over a long period of time, mainly through national and international scientific projects and cooperation. The main areas include:
- Historic building research and sustainability of monuments: Institutes offer research and evaluation of architecture and settlements. The main research tasks concentrate on the Early and High Middle Ages. Recently, more attention has been paid to the post-medieval period, which has become an equal segment in the volume of research and projects. Besides the research and scientific processing, both Institutions provide long-term care for extensive archaeological areas and carry out heritage monument research in this field. The Institutions are also focusing on new approaches in the documentation and non-destructive surveying of cultural heritage using modern methods of converting reality into virtual reality.
- Expertise in the field of cultural heritage: The Institutes offer expertise in the following fields: radiocarbon dating (see “AMS Laboratory” above), bioarchaeology, archaeogenetics, archaeometry, material analysis, paleoecology, restoration and conservation, “big data”, and computer modelling. IAP and IAB also carry out comprehensive treatment and conservation of finds obtained in the course of archaeological fieldwork, as well as a methodological shift in the development of procedures. The Institutions engage in investigating technological characteristics and the resulting social and economic interactions of metal artefacts. The technological study of these finds combines Material sciences (SEM/EDS, metallography, optical microscopy) and the experimental approach.
The Department of Architecture at FCE CTU provides expertise on historic structure research, structural and technical documentation (inventorying) of immovable heritage, coordination of pre-project works (geodetic survey, historic structure research, restoration surveys etc.), categorisation and cataloguing of heritage objects. It has equipment for architectural 3D modelling, including 3D printing and virtual reality.
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