While restoration is concerned with cultural property, particularly the document, as a unique and precious object, preventive conservation can be applied to an object as well as to larger groups; collections of objects or books, archival funds, taking care of their environment. Its action can relate to the causes of degradation: preventive conservation or to the effects of degradation: curative conservation.
Definitions :
We can distinguish in the exercise of restoration 3 areas of action :
Preventive conservation: It is an indirect action on the work that helps delay deterioration, prevent the risk of alteration, and create optimal conditions for preservation. It includes the principles of environment, packaging, transport, handling, storage and exhibition of works.
Curative conservation: It is a direct action on the work to delay its deterioration, stabilize the deterioration, consolidate the material. This type of treatment includes treatments on the support: lining, treatment of flatness defects, adhesion, canvas gaps, tears, etc.
Restoration: It is a direct action on the work to improve its reading.
My action:
Technician in preventive conservation and preservation of Cultural Heritage, i graduated in June 2014 from the Additional Maintenance of Heritage Collections at the Professional High School of Graphic Arts and Book Arts in Tolbiac. I work in the field of preventive and curative conservation of heritage collections and participate in collection projects (museums, libraries, archives).
Skills:
- Dusting by micro aspiration, eraser, brush, documents graphics and 3D objects
- Packaging or repackaging of graphic works and 3D objects
- Decennial harvesting (shooting, measurement, condition report, dust removal, marking, manipulation of works)
- Discharge of collections
- Filing and archiving, loan of documents
- Transport of works of art
- Storage in reserve and in store
- Creation of plinths for exhibition
- Exhibition assembly and disassembly
- Stamping, Quotation, Bookmark setting
- Restoration of Japanese paper bindings (back, jaws, hinge, head, tail)
- Parchment cleaning with bracknell soap
- Textile packaging
- Health study
Professional experience
Conservation Technician / Vacation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development
Link Jan 2017
Conservation Technician / Vacation
Archives of the Defense Historical Service - Workshop Filigrane
Link Fev 2016
Conservation Technician / Vacation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development
Link Oct 2014
Collection worksites
National Museum of Natural History (Dendrochronology and Cryptogamy)
Link Mar 2014
Collection worksites
National Archeology Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Library and Reserve of 3D objects)
Link Dec 2013
Internships
National Archives (Pierrefitte, Paris) / Conservation, restoration service
Link Mai 2014