Director of Engineering

Restoration is very much like medicine. Only instead of patients, we have ailing museum objects and works of art. But unlike people, the artworks are of many different types, such as paintings, manuscripts, tapestries and many others.

Each of them requires its own separate "clinic" with its own methods of "treatment", unlike the others. Separately there is a diagnostic block, equipped as well as a radiation diagnostics department of a state-of-the-art hospital. Use of explosive substances and highly toxic chemicals does not make the technologist's tasks any easier.

Along with that, the DREC is an open-type restoration where visitors can observe the restoration process. A contradiction occurs – to make the workshops as open and protected as possible. It was necessary to develop routes for visitors and protection systems – for the paintings against exposure to people, for the people against dangerous chemicals.