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Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months agoDresden museum wins Tefaf award for Rubens restoration
Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister receives the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund award to restore Rubens' The Boar Hunt, removing discolored varnish and undoing damaging 19th-century repairs to reveal the painting's original composition and palette.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago'Lost' painting reattributed to Rembrandt by Rijksmuseum's researchers
The Rijksmuseum rediscovered a lost 1633 Rembrandt painting depicting the biblical story of Zacharias, authenticated through modern scanning techniques after decades of doubt about its authenticity.
Science
fromBusiness Insider
3 months agoInside the restoration hangar where the National Air and Space Museum repairs and preserves historic aircraft for display
The Udvar-Hazy Center operates an on-site restoration hangar where visitors can watch slow, meticulous preservation of historic military aircraft like "Flak-Bait".
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
5 months agoAncient Etruscan monster gets new state-of-the-art home in Florence museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo, a 2,400-year-old Etruscan bronze, has been reinstalled in a renovated Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze gallery with new conservation and displays.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoHow an old conservation technique involving salts is winning over museums
Saturated salt solutions in display cases regulate humidity cheaply without electricity, protecting sensitive objects and absorbing harmful trace pollutants while lowering energy use.
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