
Within the Restoration Laboratory of MNIT, the painting/wood restoration sector, three painted wooden panels from the Pharmacy History Collection entered during 2023, which required restoration interventions for their future display in the newly organized permanent exhibition from the Pharmacy Museum. The pieces showed various degradations, such as adherent deposits, damage to the preparation layer with local loss, blisters, attack by xylophagous insects, but also improper previous interventions such as uneven application of varnish layers and local fixing with improper elements.
All three pieces first required dry cleaning and solvent treatments, followed by biocide treatments (against wood-boring insects). Local grouting, chromatic integration on the areas with lack of color and the preparation layer and the uniformity of the varnish on the painted surfaces were operations carried out in the next phase of the restoration process.
The curative conservation and restoration interventions were carried out by expert restorer Sabin-Pompei Grapini.
LION – Pictures from the restoration
HIPPOCRATES – Images from the Restoration
MINERVA - Images from the restoration