The institution reports that Spain’s first restoration laboratory was established at its premises in 1956, preceding the National Service for the Restoration of Books and Documents.
Selected excerpts from our archive offer more context on this subject. Each reading links to the original article and its sources.
From Lists to Reports: A Timeline of Documentary Restoration in Spanish Institutions
Spain’s Ministry of Culture holds the reference for Archives for the History of Restoration, a volume collecting papers presented during a lecture series at the Archivo Histórico Nacional between October and November 1981. The existence of that series confirms that archives were understood as a route for studying the discipline’s history.
From Lists to Reports: Documenting Restoration at the Museo del Prado
Other supplied resources help clarify the scope of restoration history, though they do not themselves describe Prado practice. The Ministry of Culture lists a volume containing papers from a lecture series held at the Archivo Histórico Nacional in October and November 1981. The UPM Library’s Digital Historical Archive has an entry on the Central Institute for the Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Archaeology and Ethnology. These are indications that institutional activity and its study can be traced across different collections and publications; they are not enough to establish specific connections between those initiatives.
KEY FACTS
- Type
- Place
- Year
- 1956
- Country or region
- Spain
