The actions of conservation-restoration of the works of art are structured around various specialities: preventive conservation, scientific laboratory, documentation and intervention of restoration in the specialities of panel painting and polychrome sculpture, painting on canvas, transferred mural painting, furniture, artwork on paper and photography, stone material, metal arts of fire.
Preservation is one of the objectives of the Museu Nacional and, therefore, it is necessary to control the environmental parameters and to obtain a stable setting for the works, and to supervise the conditions of the expositive systems, and the handling and the storage of the works of art. The alterations that are produced in the work of art can require protection against insects, disinfection, consolidation, stabilisation of the support and polychrome, fixing, cleaning and reintegration of the constituent materials.
The projects of restoration, the study of the processes and the causes of degradation require an in-depth knowledge of the work of art and its history. The examination, the technical study and the scientific analysis of the materials often require an interdisciplinary work of research.
If you would like more information about restoration-conservation and preventive conservation or to consult about the services of radiography of the use of the anoxia chamber, you can contact us, from Monday to Friday, from 9am to 2pm, by prior request to [email protected] [1] or at 93 622 03 60.