Noëlle Streeton is a Professor of Conservation in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. She is a conservator and materials historian, educated at the University of Chicago and University College London. She was the Principal Investigator for the project “After the Black Death: Painting and Polychrome Sculpture in Norway” (2014–2018) and is the chief editor and lead author of the forthcoming collaborative book, Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia. The book will be published by Brill by the end of 2024. From 1 October, Professor Streeton will be the Principal Investigator for the five-year ERC project called “POLYCHROME, The Survival of Damaged Medieval Polychromed Heritage in the Nordics”. One of the aims of the project is to image and document the purposeful mutilation of medieval polychromed objects that have survived since the Reformation in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

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