Remedial Conservation
Preserving Our Cultural Properties
Our mission is to preserve the Tokyo National Museum collection which houses approximately 110,000 items of cultural properties. Preservation of cultural property involves balancing public access with conservation needs.
This requires a comprehensive approach which entails the precise application of preventive and remedial conservation in accordance with our long-term vision. We practice primary care as a comprehensive approach through regular clinical diagnosis, preventive measure and remedial treatment for cultural properties based on various experiences accumulated over the years and through latest research results.
Entire Flow
Ageing and Degradation → Practical Research and Examination → Preventive Conservation → Remedial Conservation → Continuing to Make Progress
Remedial Conservation
Treatment of items is conducted by taking the materials and damage into account and focusing on the objects' original form. The treatment can vary from daily care to full-scale, which may include disassembling the object. This is known as curative conservation.
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Preventing Paint from Peeling
During a procedure to prevent old paint from peeling, the paint is fixed with an adhesive.
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Disassembly
This sculpture is disassembled for cleaning and to check for looseness.
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Cleaning
The stains on the womanfs face are the remnants of mold. It is necessary to remove the damaging remnants left by the mold.
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Strengthening and Filling After being eaten by insects, the missing areas of the paper are filled with the same type of paper and strengthened.
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Joining and Reconstruction This jar was restored long ago, but it was disassembled, cleaned, and rejoined because of degradation of the restored areas. The missing areas were filled in and tinted.
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