The interest for the conservation of art has developed in the last century relying on science and technology. Pigments, metals ... and all the other materials that man has learned to use in order to express his dreams, are analyzed by them and preserved by means of a suitable preventive and curative treatment. His conservative determination recovers the colours and forms of the past bringing them back to the present time, hereby attesting and protecting his own memory Hide

Man’s irresistible need to express himself leads him to use materials that are at his reach in order to leave a fingerprint in time. Therefore, the keeper has to face the difficulty of working with pieces of very heterogeneous nature: strange objects of unknown cultures brought in the scientific expeditions of the 18th century; medieval fabrics, representations in linens, pieces of bronze, glass, iron; indigenous feather art; very finely worked parchments ; objects made out of mud ... all of them proofs of human’s need to transcend.

The diversity of materials and objects that face the workshops of restoration of these big ensembles - palaces, monasteries, cathedrals - requires a small army of specialists that must know in detail technologies and manufacturing processes that have remained forgotten a long time ago. In order to keep the big golden xtensions sparkling, the skill of the main gilders to manipulate and apply the thinnest gold leaves is irreplaceable. The cabinet making and textile workshops attend to the upholstery of big surfaces and of palatial furniture; craftsmen and artists work on ceramic reliefs and pieces, and set the clocks that have marked the step of weddings and funeral, of wars and peaces; they give back the colour to the ancient tenants' paintings and to the enormous frescos, samples of the best painting of its time.