Research, Restoration and Musealization: Theory and Practice. The Painting Collection of La Canal-Blaya.

Abstract

The Collection was donated by their owners to the parish of San Miguel, of Mula (Murcia, Spain) in 1943. Since then, no intervention has been done in these works. The cataloging and restoration works were done during four summer courses from 1997 to 2001. For their restoration, theoretical and practical teaching was combined. This was undertaken by highly qualified faculty members of the Art History departments from several universities of Spain, and restorers of the best Spanish museums. At the end of the process, the restored works were exhibited in the «Museo Parroquial» (San Miguel, Mula, Murcia). The collection is important because it gathers quality paintings from sixteenth to the nineteenth century (some of them signed) and also because of its wide variety of genres, themes, techniques and supports.