The 4th International Meeting on Preventive and Interventive Conservation in Museums, Archives and Libraries will be held in Buenos Aires from Apr. 4 to 7. The event, organised by the National History Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution (Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo y de la Revolución de Mayo) in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in the Argentine capital, will be attended by, among others, Oriana Sartiani, head of the Restoration Department of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) of Florence and Letizia Montalbano, head of the Paper and Parchment Conservation Department of the OPD. The meeting will follow a programme disseminating information and training on preventive and interventive conservation in Latin America, with the aim of introducing this topic to institutions that have a large legacy in terms of cultural heritage.
International meetin on Preventive and Interventive Conservation in Museums
It will also promote inter-institutional coordination in developing preventive conservation programmes. Last year’s event took place in Buenos Aires from 16 to 19 March 2015. On that occasion Professor Sartiani, an expert on the conservation of works of art, delivered a speech on “The restoration of the previously unknown Crucified Christ by Bronzino of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice”, in which she presented the techniques used to restore one of Bronzino’s most important paintings. The meetings have been organised as part of the Year of Italy in Latin America which, among other things, promotes the spread of Italian Cultural Heritage and one of the country’s points of excellence in this area is precisely the Opificio Pietre Dure of Florence.
