Conservation, intervention and restoration in ethnographic objects: methodological suggestions

Abstract

This article points that in the modern culture of conservation, the historic authenticity of cultural property arises as a prioritary value, asserting that restoration is never based on aleatory hypothesis. Being understood that for each object and site to restore we have to realize a specific and singular study from which a peculiar planning solution can spring, it is moreover possible to identify a research process for the restoration based on “diagnosis”, where we effectuate the reading and the recognition of the state of decay and we identify all the available means to guarantee the physical conservation of the work; the definition of the “ plan”, through which the utilization of the object is realized, for the aims proposed and within the bounds allowed by the integrated conservation and it is very important, before operating any intervention, to reach the deep and complete knowledge of the object cultural property. The working realized in the Museu Dom Bosco is based on some studies of important specialists.