Abstract
The Ottoman Room at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM) is among a few remaining original reconstructed rooms of this type anywhere in the world. The Room dates from the early nineteenth century and utilizes a wide range of materials and techniques in its execution. Conservators are in the process of examining the interior to carefully access its condition, its materials, their sources, and the manner in which they have been both prepared and applied. This examination incorporates various levels of analyses, including tools available to most conservators such as ultraviolet light analysis, polarizing light microscopy (PLM) and microchemical analysis as well as equipment not normally at the disposal of all conservation laboratories, such as scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM–EDX).