Let’s be actors in conservation-restoration research, 2022

11th Professional Days of Conservation and Restoration, organized by videoconference by the Directorate General of Heritage and Architecture in partnership with the City of Architecture and Heritage and the National Heritage Institute, Paris, 31 March and 1 April 2022.

Thematic

The 11th Professional Days aimed to put heritage professionals at the heart of a research program in the field of conservation and restoration.

How to integrate all heritage professionals in a research pathway? How to access research results? How to better disseminate all research activity?

These questions have given rise to feedback in an interdisciplinary presentation.

Round-table discussions and communications allowed stakeholders from all fields of heritage (archives, libraries, museums, archaeology, historical monuments and natural heritage), to exchange on the different modes of financing research and innovation, on the need to share a common language. Case studies have presented research applied to preventive conservation, to ensure the monitoring of the state of conservation, to preserve the impossible materials or the investigations essential for a good decision-making. Finally, the issue of the management of scientific data, their conservation and dissemination was discussed

Organised by the Directorate-General for Heritage and Architecture of the Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine and the National Heritage Institute, these 11^e Professional Conservation-Restoration Days brought together about thirty speakers, restaurateurs, curators, researchers in conservation sciences and information sciences, in a videoconference, who reported on their projects and achievements.

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Thursday, March 31, 2022

Opening of days by Catherine Chevillot, President of the Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
Speech Charles Personnaz, Director of the National Heritage Institute
Speech Pascal Mignerey, Head of Delegation for Inspection, Research and Innovation

Session 1: What is the watch for funding research and innovation?

Session Chair: Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, President of the Heritage Sciences Foundation

ROUND TABLE: What funding for research?

Moderator: Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, President of the Heritage Sciences Foundation

Charles Giry-Deloison, National Research Agency
Clémentine Bollard, curator-restorer in contemporary arts and materials
Victor Etgens, Director of the Research Department of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France

The European project APACHE: objectives, first results and activities of
diffusion

Antonio Mirabile, curator-restorer of works on paper, responsible for the dissemination and communication strategy of the APACHE project (working group no. 7)

Participatory research applied to conservation and restoration: the example of the collaborative project «Gel Métaux»

Jane Échinard, head of the Arc'Antique laboratory, Loire-Atlantique department

Session 2: Looking for a common language?

Session Chair: Corinne Bélier, Director of the Collections Department, Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine

2013-2021 – Feedback on the interactions of an interdisciplinary research group in the study of the applied brocades of late Middle Ages Savoyard sculptures

Florence Lelong, conservator, state graduate (ESBAT, 2000)

Enhancing content and organizing resources at the service of heritage stakeholders: the documentary policy at the Historical Monuments Research Laboratory

Olivier Malavergne, in charge of documentary studies at the Historical Monuments Research Laboratory

In search of a common language for understanding and understanding: multidisciplinary dialogue around the “Bayeux tapestry”

Thalia Bajon-Bouzid, heritage conservator, conservation and restoration of heritage textiles

Session 3: What research is applied to preventive conservation?

Session Chair: Thi-Phuong Nguyen, Chargé de mission sur les questions de conservation préventive et curative, Service interministériel des Archives de France

Imaging to understand the deformation of objects (by the correlation of digital images)

Bertrand Lavédrine, professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Conservation Research Centre, National Museum of Natural History - CNRS - Ministry of Culture

Frame conservation and layout: what technical solutions?

Salvatore Meccio, independent conservator
Gilles Barabant, Head of Contemporary Art, Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France

Reducing the environmental impact of conservation materials: the search for alternatives for sustainable uses

Anaïs Perrichon, art director, LaM – Lille Métropole museum of modern art, contemporary art and raw art

Storm in a jar: towards a rational conservation of specimens thanks to research!

Sophie Cersoy, Research Professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Centre de recherche sur la conservation (MNHN/MC/CNRS UAR 3224)

Friday, April 1, 2022

Speech Jean-François Hebert, Director General of Heritage and Architecture

Session 4: What research to track conservation status?

Session Chair: Jean-Michel Loyer-Hascoët, Director of the Centre de recherche et de conservation des Musées de France (C2RMF)

Artificial intelligence for the preservation of related documents

Camille Simon Chane, lecturer, ETIS UMR 8051, CY Cergy Paris University, École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications, CNRS

ROUND TABLE: How to preserve impossible materials?

Moderator: Gilles Barabant, head of the 20th century - contemporary art at the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF)

Preservation of animation celluloid

Bataille Lemaire, restorer of works on paper and plastic materials, graduate of the National Heritage Institute

ZIP project on architecture layers

Marion Cinqualbre, restorer of works on state paper, initiator of the ZIP project

What we call rubber: better identification to better conserve

Isabelle Cuoco, Furniture Heritage Conservator

The fantastic and dramatic plastic at the same time

Nathalie Balcar, Design Engineer, Chemistry Applied to Heritage Conservation 20th-Contemporary Art

Session 5: What investigations for decision-making?

Session Chair: Judith Kagan, General Curator of Heritage, Head of the Office of Expertise and Trades, Sub-Directorate of Historic Monuments and Heritage Sites, Directorate-General of Heritage and Architecture - Heritage Department

What place for basic and applied research in a private laboratory? Feedback from CARAA

Michel Bouchard, scientist in charge of the Centre d'analyse et de recherche en art et archéologie (CARAA)

Should polychrome carved portals always be protected? The cases of Angers and Senlis

Clémentine Mathurin, Curator of Historical Monuments, Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Pays de la Loire
Thomas Vieweger, founder of ANAGLYPHE, specialist in the conservation and restoration of ancient and contemporary works of art

The restoration of the archives of the statue of Napoleon in Rouen in the service of research and recognition of conservation professions

Marie-Bénédicte Gavand, Head of Archives and Documentation, Directorate of Information Systems, City of Rouen
Coralie Barbe, National Heritage Institute graduate heritage restorer, Book Restoration Section

From a “destroyed” work to an exposed work. Research and feasibility study of the restoration of a panel by Hans Baldung Grien

Anne-Laure Feher, conservator
Oriane Lavit, Curator of Heritage, Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France, Department of Restoration, Painting

Diagnostic imaging: application to the Saint-Dié Gradual wood elements

Emmanuel Maurin, engineer at the Historical Monuments Research Laboratory (communicating)
Céline Girault, heritage restorer, furniture specialty
David Giovannacci, Engineer, Historical Monuments Research Laboratory
Isabelle Bonnard, expert restoration of the Conservation Department at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Restoring Elm: Elm Graphiosis and Selection of Resistant Varieties

Jean Pinon, Honorary Research Director, Institut national de la recherche agronomique de Nancy

Session 6: How to manage scientific data?

Session Chair: Pascal Liévaux, general curator of heritage, head of the department of
Research, Valorization and Intangible Cultural Heritage (DIRI)

Scientific imaging and analysis, an aid to knowledge of the “factory” of a corpus of myology drawings attributed to Marten Sagemolen (1620-1669)

Isabelle Bonnard, restoration expert at the BnF Conservation Department
Myriam Eveno, physico-chemist engineer at the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France and member of the team «Physico-chemistry des matériaux témoins de l'histoire» at the Institut de recherche de chimie Paris (CNRS/Chimie ParisTech)

ROUND TABLE: Where to keep, how to disseminate digital research data?

Moderator: Olivier Baude, Université Paris-Nanterre, Director of TGIR Huma-Num

Elsa Marguin-Hamon, Director of Research and International Relations, National School of Charters
Vincent Detalle, Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France, coordinator of the ESPADON project
Emmanuelle Bryas, Resource and Document Engineering Officer, National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, Scientific and Technical Directorate
Anne Chaillou, Archaeological Management Coordinator, Archaeology Branch
Anne Michelin, physico-chemist, lecturer at the National History Museum
within the Conservation Research Centre