Services
The Art Conservatory provides conservation and restoration services for museums, art galleries, art auction houses, historical houses and estates, churches and other religious institutions, government, corporate, and privately owned collections, and individuals.
Conservation Treatment
The Art Conservatory is a climate controlled studio outfitted with museum standard equipment, the highest quality of conservation grade materials, and a wood shop to provide an exceptional precedent of care for your treasures. A complete range of structural and aesthetic treatments are available, reflecting the most current advancements in conservation research and technical development in the field, in balance with historical tested and true methods refined by generations of study and practice. The Art Conservatory is committed to upholding the Code of Ethics and Guidance for Practice of The Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC) and the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators (CAPC).
Condition Assessments & Reports
Artwork examinations and condition reporting services provided for pre- and post-auction or sale, before and after loans, large-scale collection surveys, and for insurance claim purposes after a fire, flood, or other disaster-related event.
Preventive Care Consultation
Consultation services provided for the caretakers of collections who require advice on preventive care protocols that include (but are not limited to) target ambient conditions for storage or display, lighting, and packaging for transit.
Referrals for Related Art Services
If you are in need of any of the following services, The Art Conservatory can provide references or recommendations to trusted local professionals in the field who can assist you. No commissions are received for these referrals, they are recommended solely based on proven reputability:
Appraisals / evaluations and authentications
Framing services
Art handling / transport
Climate controlled storage
Technical analysis in the form of carbon-14 dating, x-ray fluorescence, x-ray imaging, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, or polarized light microscopy
Disaster relief services for artworks exposed to fire or flood related events.
Stabilization through consolidation of lifting or delaminating paint layers.
Lining services for paintings using a vacuum hot table.
Inpainting to reintegrate areas of loss with reversible conservation grade resins.
Surface cleaning and removal of old yellowed or darkened varnish layers.
Professional spray varnishing with glossy to matte finishes.
