Mazarrón City Council has received from the hands of the Autonomous Region 5 planes completely restored so far were badly damaged in the Municipal Archives.
The Restoration Center Role of Archives in the Region of Murcia has been responsible for restoring these planes of mining machinery, used for various hydraulic systems that facilitated the drainage of the mining galleries.
All are dated between 1887 and 1903, and are made by German technicians.
In the process of restoration techniques have been used have been developed leading edge in research laboratories, some of them employees of the British Library.
The same has been carried to the implementation of individual and specific treatments to try to overcome various technical deficiencies that had each plane.
This process involved the identification of each plane, surface analysis and cleaning them.
Removed non-document objects as well as patches or adhesive tape.
The following areas have been reintegrated lost, have teamed up cracks and tears, coming finally to the lamination and chromatic reintegration.
The plans were delivered to the mayor, Ginés Campillo, by the Director General of Cultural Assets, Francisco Giménez.
The ceremony was also attended by the Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Education, Maria Celeste Soria, and the Municipal Archivist, Magdalena Campillo.
Each year councils are asked to select the parts that are susceptible to treatment, and the municipalities themselves are proponents of the documents that need restoration.
Then, in the Centre, the specialists set the priority according to the damage and the urgency of interventions.
The director general of Cultural Heritage said that "in three years and a half of the restoration laboratory of paper have been restored and preserved 720 pieces in various media and formats, essentially parchment, paper, books, manuscripts and photographs, which meant back to our heritage more than 20,000 sheets, namely 20,437, historical documents, whose high degree of deterioration would endanger its preservation for future generations. "
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón. Foto: Murcia.com