{"id":9,"date":"2018-04-09T09:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/db_fbd\/\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:30:49","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/heritage-sciences\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>ARCHES Students<\/em>, a blog curated by students from the Heritage Studies and Conservation-Restoration programs at the University of Antwerp. Both programs integrate research and outreach, and this platform showcases some of the results of those efforts. Authors are bachelor and master students and researchers from the ARCHES PhD program.<\/p>\n<p>ARCHES \u2014 <em>AntweRp Cultural HEritage Sciences<\/em> \u2014 is a research group within the Faculty of Design Sciences, closely linked to the educational tracks in Conservation-Restoration and Heritage Studies. 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