Emerging Approaches in Synchrotron Studies of Materials from Cultural and Natural History Collections.- Non-invasive Investigations of Paintings by Portable Instrumentation: The MOLAB Experience.- Non-destructive Examination of Artistic Pigments, Paints and Paintings by Means of X-ray Methods.- New Frontiers in Application of FTIR Microscopy for Characterization of Cultural Heritage Materials.- Raman Spectroscopy of cultural heritage Materials: Overview of Applications and New Frontiers in Instrumentation, Sampling Modalities, and Data Processing.- Immunochemical Micro Imaging Analyses for the Detection of Proteins in Artworks.- Immunochemical Methods Applied to Art-Historical Materials: Identification and Localization of Proteins by ELISA and IFM.- Trends in High Performance Liquid Chromatography for Cultural Heritage.- Analytical Approaches Based on Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) to Study Organic Materials in Artworks and Archaeological Objects.- DNA Sequencing in Cultural Heritage.- Radiocarbon Dating.