Shaanxi museum, French foundation team up for relic protection

Officials at the museum said the two sides have chosen the common issue of protecting wooden remains as the starting point for their cooperation. Both the museum and the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris have extensively used wooden materials and have fire-damaged wooden remains.

The research on protecting wooden remains will involve joint efforts to preserve and restore the fire-damaged wood from the two world cultural heritage sites. It will also include wood species identification, preservation status assessment, degradation mechanisms, and protection techniques and methods, the officials said.