Valorisation and preservation of friable medium on paper. Case study on the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB).

This project aims at assessing the fragility of modern works on paper made with friable media (i;e. pastel, charcoal and chalk), at developing a protocol to guarantee their preservation and to train professionals for a better preventive conservation of those types of works.  Adopting a holistic approach, it will merge together knowledge from (technical) history of art, conservation and engineering for a better understanding of the condition state of a national collection and a more effective risk management.