The Conservation Science section collaborates with Tate conservators and curators, as well as colleagues in other museums and universities, to carry out research...
Project Case Studies:
Every potential conservation treatment and every technical study of a particular painting begins with a thorough visual examination of the artwork
Every potential conservation treatment and every technical study of a particular painting begins with a thorough visual examination of the artwork in ordinary light...
Much of conservation science research is done to answer the questions: 'Will this process be safe for the artwork? Will it have long-term consequences for the artwork?'
Projects elsewhere at Tate Online
A three year project funded by AXA Art Insurance, which enables a research team based at Tate to continue its evaluation of the effects of cleaning acrylic paintings.
A loose association of about fifteen artists in London in the years around 1910, the Camden Town Group was a distinctive and leading force in the development of modern British art.
Paints made over the last seventy years have been increasingly likely to contain synthetic binders and pigments. These synthetic paints are found in works by many modern artists.
Tate Conservation Department is working with partners on a European Union funded research project to develop the use of laser techniques for the examination of works of art.
![British School 16th century 1500-1599, A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton, 1569 [detail, photographed in raking light]. Tate. Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1961](/conservation/generic/projectboxes/tudorstewart.jpg)
Cataloguing all Tate works by artists born up to 1674 who worked in Britain, covering 106 paintings and more than forty works on paper over the period circa 1540-circa 1720.
