The Museo Egizio boasts a long conservation history rooted in the very moment of its founding, in the mid-nineteenth century, spanning nearly two centuries of conservation interventions, studies, and practices carried out on the objects in the collection. Reconstructing this history means retracing the evolution of restoration methodologies, the materials used, and the professional figures who, over time, have contributed to the care and preservation of the Museum's cultural heritage.
The study of this long history presents an intrinsic complexity, due above all to the fragmentary and dispersed nature of the available bibliographic and archival material, distributed across various archives and institutions that have, over the years, played a role in the conservation of the collection or collaborated with it. For this reason, the project aims to collect, systematize, and enhance this documentation, restoring an organic and continuous account of the Museum's conservation history.
