Caietele restaurării 2018

Abstract

The seventh issue of Caietele Restaurării aims to contribute to raising awareness of the urgency with which both movable and built heritage call for conservation-restoration and, as a first step, preventive conservation.

Cultural heritage, with all its components—regardless of the field from which the objects originate—is characterized, through the very nature of its constituent materials, by fragility and transience, but also by uniqueness and potential unity, which makes it irreplaceable.

Research conducted over the past half century has explored these aspects in detail, leading to intensified efforts toward the scientific protection of cultural heritage.

Approaches have become more nuanced, and interventions have been structured into stages. Thus, alongside remedial conservation and restoration, the concept of preventive conservation has emerged. We call it this because its strategy includes five levels of combating damaging factors through distinct actions: to avoid, to block, to measure, to respond, and to treat. Carrying out such a process also requires a profound change in mentality.