Conservation and restoration in France
Owners and scientific managers of cultural property must take measures and "actions on these properties, with the objective of safeguarding cultural heritage, while respecting its heritage interest, while guaranteeing its accessibility to present and future generations".
That’s how the European standard defines “conservation-restoration”. These measures and actions include preventive conservation, curative conservation and restoration. All conservation and restoration actions are based on documentary and/or material evidence.
Any intervention on heritage entails risks for its understanding, preservation and transmission. Intervening on a cultural good is therefore a decisive choice. This is why, in France, interventions are subject to scientific and technical control by the State departments in all the fields covered by the heritage code.
A thematic site
The thematic site "conservation-restoration" of the Ministry of Culture, offers to the general public, the professionals of the heritage and the students destined to these professions resources around the regulation, good practices, research and training in the field of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.
It also provides access to the programs and videos of the Journées professionnelles de la conservation-restauration organized every year by the Ministry of Culture since 2011. Its contents are regularly renewed by a dedicated working group.
An interdisciplinary group
The «conservation-restoration» working group, made up of about thirty members, is a place for sharing knowledge and information between professionals, curators, restaurateurs, architects, teachers, documentary and scientific heritage studies.
Working in the various departments of the Ministry of Culture, the latter is in charge of the conservation of heritage assets (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Archaeology, Historical Monuments, etc.), laboratories, research centres and training institutes for heritage professionals under the Ministry.
These members work in central government as well as in public institutions, laboratories and research centres and educational institutions. Representatives of local authorities and professional associations also join the working group coordinated by the Department of Research, Valorisation and Intangible Cultural Heritage (DRVPCI) within the Delegation to Inspection, Research and Innovation (DIRI) of the Heritage and Architecture Branch (DGPA).
List of Working Group Members - June 2023
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