The restoration and safeguarding of large-format educational cartography *
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Keywords

Graphic document
map
Large Format
intervention proposal
techniques oriental

Abstract

This article focuses primarily on finding a restorative solution for a large-format wall map. For this, a historical-artistic, pathological and morphological study of the piece has been carried out in order to conclude in the most appropriate decision for the elaboration of the subsequent intervention proposal. In the same way, some recommendations will be made for its storage, installation and exhibition, thus completing the good conservation of the object and its future durability. After attending the curricular practices at the National Library of Spain (BNE), the opportunity was taken to propose some of the methods put into practice in this institution, thereby drawing up an intervention proposal based on the synthesis between these and the knowledge acquired in the Superior School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets (ESCRBC). By way of research, it has been intended to have an approach to oriental techniques in terms of materials, tools and methodology when intervening in a work, in order to verify its effectiveness and its way of execution. The exhaustive analysis of the state of conservation of the document together with the criterion of absolute respect for the originality of the work from the moment it was made to the present day, has led to the proposal of thoughtful and adapted intervention procedures for this map. It is worth noting that despite being a project not executed, most of the processes described in the work have been put into practice, carrying out preliminary tests thanks to the collaboration of the tutors of the curricular practices, Luis Crespo Arcá and Arsenio Sánchez Hernampérez and the advice of ESCRBC tutor Diana Vilalta Moret. These tests were carried out in the BNE restoration workshop with works of similar characteristics to those of the cultural property in question, in order to be able to verify the effectiveness and response of some of the materials, tools and methods described.

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