SERVICES PROVIDED
We offer a wide range of services, from basic cleaning to complete restoration of damaged artworks. Our conservators perform thorough condition assessments and create treatment proposals that outline specific needs, procedures, and materials required for each project. Our team is skilled in treating various materials and techniques, including both traditional and contemporary paintings, watercolors, pastels, drawings, art prints, documents, maps, decorative arts, archaeological and ethnographic items, historic artifacts, and contemporary objects. Additionally, we provide assessments for institutions in collections management and conduct on-site condition reports and treatment proposals for large collections and oversized projects.
- Preventive Conservation
- Remedial Conservation
- Restoration
- Condition Assessment
- Treatment Proposal
- Analytical Services
- Disaster recovery
WHAT IS
Conservation
Conservation measures and actions aim to safeguard tangible cultural heritage while ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations. It embraces preventive conservation, remedial conservation, and restoration. All measures and actions should respect the significance and physical properties of the cultural heritage item.
*Terminology defined by the International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation ICOM-CC
Preventive Conservation*
All measures and actions aimed at avoiding and minimizing future deterioration or loss are carried out within the context or surroundings of an item, but more often a group of items, regardless of their age and condition. These measures and actions are indirect – they do not interfere with the materials and structures of the items, nor do they modify their appearance. Examples of preventive conservation include appropriate measures and actions for registration, storage, handling, packing and transportation, security, environmental management (light, humidity, pollution, and pest control), and emergency planning...
Remedial Conservation*
All actions directly applied to an item or a group of items aimed at arresting current damaging processes or reinforcing their structure. These actions are only carried out when the items are in such a fragile condition or deteriorating at such a rate, that they could be lost in a relatively short time. These actions sometimes modify the appearance of the items. Examples of remedial conservation are disinfestation, desalination, deacidification, stabilization of corrosions, consolidation...
Restoration*
All actions directly applied to a single and stable item aimed at facilitating its appreciation, understanding and use. These actions are only carried out when the item has lost part of its significance or function through past alteration or deterioration. They are based on respect for the original material. Most often such actions modify the appearance of the item. Examples of restoration are cleaning, retouching, reassembling a broken structure, filling losses, varnishing...