The department of Conservation and Restoration works on conservation and restoration projects at home and abroad. A few projects are highlighted below.
daguerreotypes
Having specialised for more than ten years in conserving and restoring daguerreotypes, the department has assembled valuable technical information and photo-historical knowledge in a databank.
Daguerreobase.org
All the information that the department has collected about daguerreotypes is registered in a databank: Daguerreobase.org. This includes data about a large part of the daguerreotypes iin the possession of the Print Room of the University of Leiden, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and private family archives. This information will in the future be available via Internet and can be supplemented by interested experts.
More information about daguerreotypes can be found in the Permanent gleam dossier on this website.
Ermakov
The Nederlands Fotomuseum has been working since 1999 for the Stichting Horizon and the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi on conserving and opening up the archive of the Georgian photographer Dimitri Ermakov (1846-1916). Research has been going on since 1999 into this special archive consisting of around 20,000 wet collodium plates, 15,000 stereo cards, 25,000 original prints and more than 100 photo albums. A wing of the Georgian National Museum has been thoroughly renovated and equipped as an archive and visitors’ space with a reconstruction of Ermakov’s studio from 1890. Ermakov’s archive is being cleaned, repacked and made digitally accessible.
The project in Georgia is being financed by the European Stichting Horizon based in Naarden. Additional grants have been received from the Flora Family Foundation and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Eastern Europe Fund.
Indonesia
A conservation project has recently been initiated in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Djakarta, Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata. The project consists of cleaning and providing access to Van Kinsbergen’s negatives. The transfer of knowledge to two Indonesian assistants represents an important part of the project.
contact
Department of Conservation and Restoration
tel. +31 (0)10 2030408
fax. +31 (0)10 2030406
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