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Microscopy Applications for Your Museum
Effective conservation and restoration work starts with in-depth research to establish the composition and condition of the artefact. Microscopy is an important tool in this research, with different instruments - from stereo to electron microscopes - providing access for different specialist investigations.
The optics used in museums are dictated by the objects being examined. Often these pieces are too unwieldy to be placed under traditional microscopes, and often they are too delicate.
First Examinations, Cleaning and Restoration

With boom stands, examine even large objects directly at their place

Chatham emerald, hydrothermally grown in lab

Zoom microscope Axio Zoom.V16

Saphire ring
Revealing Finest Details and Purest Colors

Bar olivine chondrule in the Coolidge meteorite in polarized reflected-light

Distinguish between natural and synthetic fibers

Structure of the surface of a furniture wood

Complex multiphase mixture of sandstones
Non-invasive Insights Beneath the Surface

Bear jaw (120 mm X 200 mm) imaged from full jaw to micron-scale view of jaw-tooth interface.

Head of a juvenile great white shark
High-Magnification Surface and Structural Details

Arms with suckers of Eledone sp.-larva

Fungal spores

Melosira: Diatoms. Species Melosira arenaria, acquires with ZEISS EVO.

Pollen on textile