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Conservation and restoration of works of art is an ongoing activity in most museums, although the visitor is generally not aware of this process. Occasionally cleaning or some other form of intervention effects change and demands an explanation
Click on the project you would like to learn more about.
Restoration
Restoration refers to repair - filling in missing
areas where the original decoration or painted layer has been lost.
Conservation
This is an all-embracing term for the
preservation of art objects that includes cleaning, stabilization and restoration.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Venus, c. 1518
Unknown, Canadian
St. Joseph
c. 1800-1850
Anthony van Dyck
Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me,
c. 1618







