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Featured Videos
Listen in as Marie-Catherine Cyr, Assistant Conservator of Paintings, talks about the main conservation challenges the team encountered during the pandemic.
NGC Senior Conservator of Contemporary Art, Geneviève Saulnier, speaks about the many surprises she has encountered when it comes to preserving contemporary works of art.
Watch how our conservation team prepared the marble bust Empress Josephine, by Joseph Chinard, for its big moment at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Pochades are small paintings, typically produced rapidly by an artist working outdoors. Learn more about their conservation with Stephen Gritt, Director of Conservation and Technical Research.
Follow the journey of the Woolsey Family's Caudle Cup, from acquisition to presentation in the Canadian and Indigenous Galleries.
Learn more about an exceptional restoration treatment for the centrepiece to Ron Moppett's polyptych Whatif/Twilight, which had been submerged during the 2013 Calgary floods.
Featured Content
The Gallery is continually assessing ways of bringing visitors closer to the art, while ensuring the safety of the works in its care.
August 20, 2020
Changes to an old master work of art can be difficult to assess, but recent conservation work on Wouwerman's painting was aided by the existence of a French print.
July 9, 2020
By unravelling the causes and effects of changes that have transformed the appearance of a work of art over time, one can re-discover the original integrity of the work.
July 3, 2020
Dating to the early 16th century, Quinten Massys’ painting of the Crucifixion is being given a new frame that is contemporary to the period when the Flemish master created it.
May 27, 2020
Technical research conducted on Paul Gauguin’s portrait bust of his artist friend Meijer de Haan has revealed significant new information about the artist's use of materials, paint and methods of working.
July 25, 2019
The comparative study of a still life by William Nicholson with a painting in the BBC's "Fake or Fortune" series enabled new insights into both works and their genesis.
April 26, 2019