European Day of Conservation-Restoration  

About the departments

The staff in the Conservation, Restoration and Art Technology department are responsible for a broad range of tasks that extend far beyond managing the holdings and preserving the historic cultural assets in the collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. They play a key role in steering complex processes with regard to studying, preserving, displaying and presenting the collection objects. Their scope of responsibility extends to handling (inter-)national loans, developing restoration concepts and subsequently carrying them out in practice on the actual objects.

Restoration tasks are divided into six subject areas in the museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar – paintings, graphic works, arts and crafts, furniture, textiles and leather, and preventative conservation – each of which are supervised by corresponding professional restorers and project-related staff. The Collection Preservation unit at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek is responsible for preserving and restoring the book collections. The scope of measures consists first and foremost of preventative and conservation-stabilising preservation measures and is supplemented in justified cases by restorative and bookbinding methods.