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On Friday 20 February, at 2 p.m., the preparatory meetings for the preparation for the admission tests to the single-cycle Master’s degree course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of the University of Turin will be held online, in agreement with the ‘La Venaria Reale’ Conservation Restoration Centre. The initiative is aimed at those who intend to deepen ... Read more

In recent weeks, the director of the Restoration Laboratories and the JRC School of Higher Education La Venaria Reale, Michela Cardinali, with the head of the Wall Paintings Restoration Area, Marie-Claire Canepa, and the restorer Roberta Coco are working with a team of Egyptologists and conservators from the Egyptian Museum in Turin in the burial chamber of the ... Read more

The Restoration Conservation Centre "La Venaria Reale" is engaged in a project of study, investigation and restoration dedicated to a core of illuminated choirs of the Certosa di Pavia, large-format liturgical volumes made between the end of the fifteenth and the second half of the sixteenth century and intended for collective use during solemn celebrations. The ... Read more

For the new set-up of the oriental collection of the P. A. Garda Civic Museum in Ivrea "Kachō Flowers and birds in oriental art", a nucleus of 6 extraordinary fabrics of Japanese origin has been entrusted to the Laboratory of Textile Manufactures of the JRC La Venaria Reale. The whole is characterized by a particular richness both in terms of types and of materials and executive techniques ... Read more

How do you keep a historical dress?   The JRC La Venaria Reale offers the advanced training course ‘The evolution of seams in tailoring’, dedicated to the study of the sewing techniques used in the manufacture of historic clothes between the 16th and 19th centuries. The workshop aims to address the evolution and use of the various stitching points used in ... Read more

The collaboration between the Centro Conservazione Restauro La Venaria Reale and the Museums of Strada Nuova in Genoa has started for the pilot project dedicated to the September-October tapestry, part of the Twelve Months series of English manufacture (Mortlake, early 17th century) belonging to the civic collections. The initiative aims to establish a shared protocol for ... Read more

On Saturday 13 December, the inauguration of Ricordi di viaggio (Travel Memories) will take place at Castello di Agliè. Paintings from Japan at Agliè Castle, the new exhibition featuring 21 Japanese paintings, restored by the Restoration Conservation Centre ‘La Venaria Reale’, thanks to the contribution of the CRT Foundation, paid through Art Bonus, and the support of the Ministry of Culture. These are works of ... Read more

Yesterday the new POP-APP MUSEUM was inaugurated: a suggestive space dedicated to animated and interactive books that expands and renews the MUSLI (Museum of School and Book for Children). The Restoration Conservation Centre ‘La Venaria Reale’ has carried out important interventions on some of the artefacts on display, forming part of a wider research programme dedicated to the conservation of books ... Read more

On the occasion of the great monographic that will inaugurate on December 20, The painter of the King. Luigi Norfini in Risorgimento Italy, promoted by the National Museums of Lucca and the Palazzo Galeotti Museum in Pescia to celebrate the bicentenary of the artist’s birth, the ‘La Venaria Reale’ Conservation Restoration Centre contributed to the project with the restoration of two ... Read more

On 1 December 2025, the conference dedicated to Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was held in the Aula Magna of the Centre, on the day on which he would have turned 100. A central figure in the history of restoration between the 20th and 21st centuries, Pinin Brambilla arrived at the Centre in a phase of full professional maturity, called to start and direct the ... Read more