Conservation

Conservation
The Educational Silk Museum is committed to creating a repository of artefacts and textile materials, with the aim of quantifying the museum heritage and detecting its state of conservation for subsequent treatment, and moving the materials to slow down their degradation.
The collected materials were grouped by topic and divided by logical or physical departments, with the possibility of managing all the data relating to the deposit and grouping the items by macro-family.

The restoration interventions are designed and carried out with interdisciplinary working groups made up of external experts. They involve the formal restoration of the object, but also its correct arrangement in the exhibition section, with the aim of preserving its conditions and improving its public use, making even the goods not on display accessible to scholars and those who request them.

Restorations completed
"ADOPT A BOOK" PROJECT
LUIGI INTROZZI'S WEAVING NOTEBOOK
ANTONIO CLERICI'S WEAVING NOTEBOOK
F. RHO TRIMMING SIGN
PREVIOUS RESTORATIONS OF THE MUSEUM

Cataloging
The cataloging activity of the museum heritage began in 1996, with the development of a sheet useful for describing the most important exhibits on display.

In 2002, a more complete card was built, compatible with the STS (Technical-Scientific Instrumentation) layout, recognized at a national level as it was developed by the ICCD (Central Institute for Cataloging and Documentation).
The filing activity has continued since 2004 with annual projects in collaboration with the Lombardy Region-SIRBeC (Regional Cultural Heritage Information System), which have led to the creation of approximately 950 records according to the national BDM (Demo-ethno-anthropological Material Heritage) tracks ) and PST (Scientific and Technological Heritage).
The cataloging data are published by the Region on the Lombardia Beni Culturali portal, where the Museum is already present today under the heading "Places of Culture".


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