RENEX II

Task description

Management and coordination of the RENEX project (EXP). This task aims to coordinate expectations between institutions (CINAMIL, MML, Ch-ULisboa) and ensure the creation of dynamic development conditions for knowledge transfer, dissemination of specific experimental knowledge about the material preservation of the artifacts under study. 

It will also have the management and maintenance of the website for the project and the production of project monitoring reports. In coordination with the consultants will validate the development of tasks and the quality of the work done.

Reserves the obligation to revise the plan and will bring to the project a base of contacts for the furute formation of a wide range of consortium. 

Together with the project investigators will follow the work developed by the student “researcher”.

At the project, an assessment of the quality and status of implementation will be carried out to correct the investigations and centrality of the project.

Task description

Related to the case study: maintenance of the mechanisms studied, with disassembly, photographic registration and restoration. It is intended to perform operational tests on the mechanisms to observe its operation and produce technical documentation. Study of the exhibition space and discussion on hypotheses for the exhibition’s evolution. 

Update registration on museum catalog detail. The information will be also registered in the basis of public database on the national heritage, in order to meet international cataloging requirements. The results of this work will be delivered to the Scientific Police Laboratory of the Judiciary Police (LPC-PJ), in order to be useful in combating illicit trade.

Task description

With the execution of an exhaustive documentary survey with the Military Historical Archive, it will be possible to develop hypotheses about the technological evolution of the military industry. As a result, it is expected to create a knowledge base to formulate new hypotheses on the levels of evolution of national technology compared to the European state of art.

Taking the mechanisms as a case study, it was a technical option that admittedly allows us to create comparison and also investigate knowledge transmission networks and propagation speeds.

As a result of the study it will be possible after the disassembly and assembly of the mechanisms and installation of them in a position of fire, prepare the dissemination of the results in the permanent exhibition of the Lisbon Military Museum and spread knowledge among other institutions.

Task description 

Carry out a bibliographical survey of technical publications related to the production and use of locks for artillery weapons until the 19th century. Carry out an investigation to find other original “gun lock” mechanisms that exist in Portugal. Collect information for the production of articles and to support the cycle of meetings and production of exhibitions.

Task description

Contextualization of the mechanisms under analysis in the project for integration into the general plan of permanent exhibition at the Lisbon Military Museum. Create a temporary exhibition on the technologies researched in the RENEX project.  

Project website update, production of information for publication on the Internet. Publication of an article in the Artillery Magazine, the Army Magazine and the Navy Magazine. Publication of research results in an international academic magazine.  A cycle of meetings and a international seminar.