Conservation and restoration of material

 

The Conservation and Restoration Department has 8 employees on staff (2 senior conservation/restoration specialists, 2 conservation/restoration specialists, 1 senior restoration technician, 1 restoration technician, 1 senior photographer, 1 IT specialist). Of these, 6 mostly work in two separate facilities located in the Museum’s rear garden museum; the IT specialist works in the main building, while one and one conservation/restoration specialist is on permanent assignment at Salona.

All conservation and restoration procedures are regularly conducted in the Museum’s collections within narrower specializations, and occasionally conservation works are conducted on the remains of walls, plaster and mosaics in Solin and Vis. Conservation and restoration activities are presented through the publication of articles and posters and the organization of lectures open for the public.

Preventive protection and conservation are done by gathering digital data and conducting visual inspections in the exhibition halls, the covered lapidarium in the Museum’s front garden, in basement storage rooms and in the rear garden, which houses a high number of categoirzed stone monuments. The department’s activities include the production of moulds and replicas of select objects as display substitutes or souvenirs. Both the Museum’s own and visiting exhibitions have full technical support.