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Preventive conservation strategies for wax bodies in Scientific University Collections Sánchez Ortiz, María Alicia Micó Boró, Sandra 7.025 Wax Scientific collections Deterioration Conservation Conservación y restauración de obras de arte Museología 6299 Otras Especialidades Artísticas 5101.06 Museología In recent years, university museums have been subject to growing interest from the scientific community. Their collections are composed of objects whose nature varies, allowing the visitor and the researcher to make a visual tour of the different scientific disciplines. This paper analyses the main agents of deterioration that affect a specific type of cultural heritage exhibit, the anatomical models made of organic materials (wax, natural hair, horsehair, vegetable fibres, dyes, natural resins, etc.), which are highly sensitive to environmental agents, and it proposes strategies for the preventive conservation of collections consisting of such items. The Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has one of the most important collections of such models in Europe, containing true works of art which combine scientific rigor with the aesthetic taste of the 18th century. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Depto. de Pintura y Conservación-Restauración Fac. de Bellas Artes TRUE pub 2026-04-09T14:42:38Z 2026-04-09T14:42:38Z 2012 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134561 XXXX-XXXX 10.6092/issn.1973-9494/3400 eng HAR2009-10679 Sánchez-Ortiz, A. & Micó Boró, S. (2012). Preventive conservation strategies for wax bodies in scientific university collections. Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 12(1), 215–245'. Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access application/pdf Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna