La conservation des os gras : recherche d’un traitement de dégraissage des squelettes de baleine

• Published in: ArchéoSciences
• Main Authors: Guilminot, Élodie, Lemoine, Gwenaël, Pele, Charlène, Poisson, Laurent, Surbled, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2012
• Subjects: dégraissage; Raman; os gras; baleine; degreasing; fatty bones; fin whale; museo; art; Baleine; Brune; Rorqual; Fin whale
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/archeosciences/3175

The degreasing methods used for osteological collections are not always completely satisfactory. Many natural history museums are confronted with the problem of fatty skeletons. It is the case of the fin whale of the Nantes Natural History Museum. Fatty bones are unaesthetic (brown colouring), but i...