Conservation

The polyptych was dismembered in the 19th century. It is now presented in a new form that suggests the work’s original completeness.

After cleaning, losses are being filled with white putty; the colors will then be retouched, followed by the final varnish.

Musée Guimet has launched a €100,000 fundraising campaign to restore three Japanese folding screens ahead of their planned presentation in the exhibition ‘Images qui se plient et se déplient : Paravents japonais’ in March 2027.

Kai Nielsen’s ‘Water Mother’ (1919–20) will be removed from the basin in Glyptoteket’s Winter Garden in late September 2026 for conservation and restoration.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham has begun conserving ‘An Allegory of Geometry’, a large Flemish tapestry acquired by the institution’s founder, Lady Barber.

Work has begun on removing and restoring ‘Volavky’, a public sculpture of three stylised herons that has stood on a tall steel pillar in Prague’s Lužiny housing estate since 1988.