The conservation work in Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

As a national museum with 40 years of development, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum has a great number of fine arts objects which are diversified in genre and media. Therefore, conservation, restoration for the objects are of the top priority task of the Museum. This has received appropriate consideration of the Museum’s leaders.

The objects, either on the exhibition or in the store, receive maintenance according to regulations on conservation as follows:

Preventive conservation to protect the objects from the outer factor like temperature, humidity, light, insects… A satisfactory control and care is paid over the display method, storing position and transportation of the objects.

Treatment conservation: to prevent deterioration of the objects by direct treatment on them. The major conservation works include:
+ Consolidating a vulnerable object
+ Adhering and fixing a broken piece of an object
+ Remove dust, insect, other producs which is harmful to an object

Restoration : To facilitate the research on object with the technique of direct touching to the object without affecting its material, originality fine arts characteristic. The restoration works include:
+ Renewing the auxiliary back of silk or paper paintings
+ Remove the old unsatisfied constructing materials
+ Retouch paint losses on oil painting.

With the view to enhance the conservation work , Vietnam Fine Arts Museum has been cooperating with local and foreign organizations, museums, universities to train experts on conservation for different media like silk, oil, paper.