Conservation problems in the interaction between artefacts and the environment

The Central Institute for Restoration, in collaboration with the School of Cultural Heritage and Activities Foundation and the Directorate General for Education, Research, and Cultural Institutes, is organizing training days on “Conservation problems in archaeological artefacts, museum collections, monuments, fountains, and gardens, in the interaction between artefacts and the environment”.

The course explores the topic of the interaction between artefact and environment from several points of view:

• conservation in situ in the archaeological sector; now an indispensable cultural choice that involves the need for actions aimed at protecting ancient remains exposed to microclimatic and biodeteriogenic agents;
• the conservation of museum collections, both on display to the public and in storage; this involves the study of the environment and storage conditions of objects, lighting, air quality, biological degradation factors, as well as display cases and transportation for display in temporary exhibitions, as part of Preventive Conservation;
• the conservation of particular types of cultural heritage, such as bronzes displayed outdoors, fountains and nymphaea;
• contemporary murals in the area of street art and urban art.

Target audience

MiC Technical-scientific officers and assistants and technical operators

Enrolment and use

Enrolment is open from 10 to 23 Marcy 2022 exclusively through the Course Portal: https://portalecorsi.beniculturali.it

The training days will be available on the FAD platform of the Foundation on 5, 6, 14 and 29 April 2022, live for up to 980 participants.

For additional participants enrolled and authorised on the Course Portal (up to 3,000), the content will be available on demand from 10 May to 30 June 2022.

Attendance for all lectures in the the module (about 9 hours) entitles participants to 9 continuing education credits (CFC).

For more information

Circular DGERIC n. 9 dated 8-3-2022
Program (attenzione: variazione di programma segnalato con avvisi del 19 aprile 2022 e 17 aprile 2023)
SBAC Foundation's FAD Platform Handbook

Avviso del 17 gennaio 2023
Si comunica che la lezione della dott.ssa Ines Maria Marcelli, nell'ambito del corso “I problemi conservativi di reperti archeologici, collezioni museali, monumenti, fontane e giardini nell’interazione tra manufatti e ambiente” dello scorso 29 aprile 2022, si svolgerà il giorno 31 marzo 2023 alle ore 11.30 su piattaforma FAD della Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali.

Notice from 19 April 2022

The lesson taught by Dr. Ines Maria Marcelli from 11:00 – 12:00 on 29 April as part of the course “Conservation problems in archaeological artefacts, museum collections, monuments, fountains, and gardens, in the interaction between artefacts and the environment " has been postponed for organisational reasons. The lesson will be made up on a date to be determined. Notification will be given on this page and on the Course Portal.

Left: Migrant Child, Banksy, May 2019, plastic wall painting (street art) done by stencil on a historical wall of a Venetian building (photomontage with different tides: Paola Mezzadri). Right: top, plastic wall painting by the artist Millo, commissioned and created for the Street Art Square Festival as part of “Paphos Capitale della Cultura 2017” (urban art). Borrom, January 2021, the same mural recently erased and painted over by the building’s owner.

Featured image:

Giovanni Nicolini, "Fontana Gaia", bronze, 1929, Rome, Villa Borghese, general view after restoration