Documents Conservation and Restoration Department
Žygimantų St. 1, LT-01102 Vilnius
Telephone +370 262 57 81, E-mail: restauravimas@mab.lt
Head of Department Birutė Giedraitienė giedraitiene@mab.lt
The Conservation and Restoration department was established in 1976. At present 8 certified and experienced restorers work here. They worked on probation in Leningrad, Tartu, Torun, Tallinn and in the workshops of restoration in Vilnius. Their qualification allows them to restore valuable documents which need very complicated technologies of restoration.
Examples of restaured documents
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Projects
Common project of Lithuania and Germany
Archival documents of Eastern Prussia and territory of Klaipėda that are kept in the Manuscript Department of our library are equally important to the history of Lithuania and Germany. The secret archive of Prussian heritage wants to have good copies of these documents. In 2000 specialists from Berlin looked over these archives and found out that some of the documents need restoration or conservation.
Because of the great quantity these documents and in order to make the process of restoration faster and easier, the government of Germany assigned finances for equipment and materials of restoration. A part of these finances was allocated for archival boxes and for wages of 4 restorers.
The equipment was brought and mounted in the library by Mr. H. Peters, the head of Restoration department of state secret archive of Prussian heritage. This project is supervised by director of the Library of Lithuanian academy of sciences, Dr. J. Marcinkevičius and by director of State secret archive of Prussian heritage Dr.Kloosterhuis.
The Project started in July of 2001. It has brought a prominent support to our library. There was acquired quite a big number of various equipment: vacuum tables, tables for restoration, leaf casting tool, the instrument for setting of paper acidity, cardboard and paper cutting machine, vacuum cleaners with micro filters, 4 presses and various materials for 130.200 DM (234 360 Lt). Conservation and Restoration Department received additional premises to arrange separate rooms for cleaning and disinfection procedures and for bookbinding. In this way there appeared a possibility to improve working conditions for the restorers.
Project EUREKA
Two restorers of the department D. Daukšienė and B. Giedraitienė took part in a project carried out by the Manuscripts department MUSICALIA (Lithuanian part of European program EUREKA for investigation, development and cooperation) They cleaned, fixed and flattened the documents selected for this project.