PRESERVE / REPAIR / DOCUMENT

Workshop

Careful conservation, documented diagnosis and reversible modifications.

⚠ SAFETY FIRST

CRT televisions and power supplies can retain lethal voltages even when unplugged. Electrical work must be performed by trained personnel.

Exterior cleaning

Begin with the least invasive intervention and document the initial condition.

Diagnosis

Do not replace components without measuring, verifying and recording the reason.

Conservation

Control humidity, sunlight, batteries and incompatible materials.

Reversible modification

Always retain the original parts and avoid permanent damage.

Data recovery

Work from copies and preserve the original medium without writing to it.

Traceability

Record tools, products, parts and every technical decision.

GUIDES / VERIFIED

Documented guides

Timeline · 1960

1963 as a Turning Point: the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Archive as Active Memory

Founded in February 1963 from Gerhard Lamprecht’s collection, the Deutsche Kinemathek offers a precise starting point for considering film archives as practices of preservation, consultation, and public transmission. Personal, corporate, and institutional holdings show that cinema’s memory exceeds the isolated film.

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Collecting · 2000

From Album to Archive: Why Stickers Are Also Heritage

The 2006 opening of Modena’s Museo della Figurina offers a way to examine the sticker as a printed object, a domestic collection, and a cultural document. This guide proposes a careful approach to viewing, cataloguing, and preserving it, while separating established evidence from questions requiring further research.

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Timeline · 1980

From Lists to Reports: A Timeline of Documentary Restoration in Spanish Institutions

A chronological reading of how documentation, preventive conservation and minimal intervention became central to institutional restoration, drawing on cases documented by the Prado, the MNCN and Spanish cultural bodies.

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Verified curiosities · NOW

Preserving Video Games Is Not Just Saving ROMs: What Museums and Archives Actually Keep

Video-game preservation encompasses hardware, software, documents, advertising, magazines, audiovisual materials and the cultural conditions of use. Drawing on Spanish initiatives and academic debates, this article defines what can be verified about that work and why a playable copy does not exhaust a game’s history.

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Guide · 2000

How to Read a Television Archive as Cultural Heritage

A guide to understanding why cameras, videotape machines, media, broadcasts and documentation make up a single public memory, drawing on documented cases and principles from Spain and Latin America.

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Guide · pre-1950

Reading an Automobile Museum Through MAUTO and Conservation in Context

A guide to looking at a historic automobile collection beyond the shine of its bodywork. Turin’s MAUTO provides a case study for provenance, authenticity, exhibition design and preventive conservation, while Spanish museums place that work within cultural and technological heritage.

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Feature · NOW

Reading an Audiovisual Archive Means Looking Beyond the Films a Museum Preserves

A reading guide to understand why films, documents, equipment and access contexts jointly make up cinematic heritage.

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Technical sheet · 1980

1980 and the Prado Restoration Archive

In 1980, the creation of the Museo del Prado Bulletin coincided with the systematic preparation of reports for every treated work and the organisation of a dedicated archive. More than an administrative detail, this process made conservation a consultable part of the museum’s memory.

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