Museum Restoration and Exposition of the Ancient Ceramics in the Hermitage Museum. The past and the present
The choice of the methods of the ancient ceramics restoration always was connected with its purpose. In ancient times, it was aimed at prolonging the usage in household or for the religious ceremonies. At present the aim is the study, publication, preserving or exhibiting. There were several kinds of ancient restoration of the ceramic vessels and utilitarian methods of their "repairs". At the end of the eighteenth and at the nineteenth centuries the restoration of ancient vessels was mainly done in the Italian workshops. The two of them have been investigated in detail: the workshop of Marqius G. P. Campana and other one which was in Naples. Nowadays the methods of restoring ancient ceramics in the museums are chosen depending on archaeological, historical and art value of the exhibits.