Restoration

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The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza is constantly engaged in cleaning, maintenance and monitoring of the state of conservation and restoration of the instruments displayed to the public or kept in its Storage Deposits. Most of the restoration work necessary to salvage or conserve intact over time the Museum's precious collections is carried out directly by the technicians and craftsmen of the Institute's Restoration Laboratory. They are able, alone, to work expertly on the wooden and metallic parts of the instruments. In especially delicate cases, such as the presence of parasites in fabric, paper or wood, or for work carried out on such particular materials as painted surfaces, parchment, glass, ivory, wax, etc., the IMSS recurs to the consultation and intervention of national and foreign specialists, for both monitoring and restoring the instruments. In these special cases, the Institute stipulates particular agreements with various Departments of the Italian Universities, the Institutes of the CNR, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, and other territorial agencies capable of supervising, in conjunction with the Institute's curators, the correct execution of the restoration work.

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