CSMC researchers have published the first scientific study of microbiota associated with damaged parchment manuscripts from Kairouan’s historical library, marking a milestone in the cooperation with the National Heritage Institute and National Laboratory for the Preservation and Conservation of Parchment and Manuscripts in...

KMP and its Tunisian partners have received renewed funding from the international 'Hidden Stories' project to support internships training new conservators at the NLPCPM, ensuring specialist knowledge is passed on to safeguard one of the world’s most significant Islamic manuscript collections.

Numerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late 2024, a delegation from Tunisia brought 15 objects to Hamburg and analysed them together with the experts of the Artefact Lab at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures...