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AXA ART's Collaboration with Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections Launches Early Warning System to Measure Artworks' Overexposure to Light

June 11, 2012

BASEL, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - June 11, 2012) - International art insurance specialist AXA ART announces its collaboration with Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections (CRCC) at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris resulted in the production of LightControl. The device is designed to serve as early warning system to monitor the lighting conditions within which sensitive artworks are exhibited and to alert collectors when the integrity of their works are at risk. Professor Bertrand Lavedrine, Director at the CRCC, led the research study and development of the dosimeter.

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