73-CR-2022_Turin, Villa della Regina, Extraordinary and ordinary maintenance of wall paintings and decorated surfaces of architecture

Facilitated description: 

 

In 2022, the La Venaria Conservation and Restoration Centre carried out the maintenance of Villa della Regina in Turin. 
The restorers have made a maintenance (intervention to preserve the works without modifying them) in the rooms of the Apartment of the King and Queen. 
The project was attended by restorers from different workshops (wood, textiles, wall paintings). 
The restorers studied what ruined the works and identified all the damage.
The restorers did the interventions every 2 months on Monday during the closing day of the museum.
They eliminated all the substances that had been deposited on the works. 
They made specific interventions for the most ruined works.
The restorers carried out Integrated Pest Management (they did a check to see the presence of insects and organisms harmful to the works of art). 
To do the verification they put traps suitable for measuring the presence of all types of insects and organisms.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance

In 2022, the "La Venaria Reale" Conservation and Restoration Centre was responsible for the routine maintenance of the mobile and fixed collections of the Villa della Regina visit in Turin. The intervention provided for the identification, monitoring and design of practical activities aimed at the prevention of degradation phenomena of the exhibited works. The activities began in July and were carried out every two months, on Monday, the day closed to the public.
The project saw the involvement of restorers specialized in different sectors (wooden artefacts, fabrics, wall paintings) in order to operate in a specialized manner on different types of material. 
Before the intervention, the conservation problems of the Apartments of the King and Queen were identified (presence of deposits of various kinds, lifts, gaps and dimensional variations of the wooden works, anthropic damage).
The main operations of the maintenance activity have therefore focused on the removal of incoherent deposits and on the implementation of interventions aimed at responding to specific ongoing and progressive conservation problems. 
The project also included an activity of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to monitor the presence of organisms that may be harmful (insects, pathogens, weeds, vertebrates). IPM monitoring included the installation of 14 traps for monthly detection.