Empa and Museum Tinguely’s continuing collaboration inspired us to understand the aspects of Jean Tinguely’s art that stakeholders value, Empa’s anti-wear coating, and the impact the coating will have on stakeholders. We conducted interviews and surveys and discovered that Museum Tinguely is equipped to rectify misinformed restorations. Survey results confirmed that the coating would uphold the values we identified. Therefore, we recommended that Empa commit resources to adjust the anti-wear coating to work with Tinguely’s sculptures and that Museum Tinguely involve external stakeholders in risky restoration projects. We also recommended Museum Tinguely develop reference criteria for restoration and Empa improve the documentation procedure we developed for further research.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Skeggs, Eli Sanborn
• Marcucci, Stephanie
• Mackintosh, Thomas Peter
• Langberg, Erik Isom

Subject

• Sustainability
• Culture
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101117-095850

Keyword

• Museums--Conservation and restoration
• Historic preservation

Award

• President's IQP Award

Advisor

• DiMassa, Daniel

Year

• 2017

Center

• Zurich, Switzerland Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Crockett, Rowena
• Empa

Date created

• 2017-10-11

Location

• Zurich

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-01-18