Yesterday's TO BHMA had a short article on the Caryatids from the Erechtheion and the laser restoration work on them that was undertaken recently. The International Institute for Conservation gave the New Acropolis museum an award for their use of laser technology (χρήση τεχνολογίας λέιζερ), an approach undertaken particularly well as it involved visitors being able to watch the process, as opposed to taking place in a lab. Almost two million visitors since December 2010 have witnessed the process of the laser restoration work!
I was a little lost on how the process actually works (my Greek is not so great, and my scientific knowledge is even worse), but from what I remember from actually seeing the process last year was that it was particularly innovative and included a sort of live-screen streaming of the process, so that visitors could watch it occurring but not be affected by the lasers.
The New Acropolis Museum hasn't allowed photos since the first summer they opened (Summer 2009), which is when I took this photograph of the Caryatid's fabulous hairstyles.
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