Conserving Dürer's Triumphal Arch

You are all experts and real masters at your craft. You have to be. At the sight of a Dürer print being put into a water bath, my heart missed some beats. To be able to do all that you achieve in conservation, needs experience and dedication

I actually did a case study for the process of conservation of the Copenhagen print. The technical and also ethical considerations of the process was insanely fascinating (from a heritage worker's perspective anyway!) Sometimes curators and conservators have to invent new conservation methods and use entirely new theoretical perspectives for each piece as they go along.

Redefining the meaning of "meticulously done". Stunning effort!

Thank you for preserving our cultural history and making this interesting video about the process.

Albrecht Durer is my absolute favorite Northern Renaissance artist! Such intricate work!

The amount of patience you have to have to work in this profession. Kudos to you all

Conservation on this level is phenomenally articulated and fascinating, these extraordinary people invest in surgical precision, mastering all manner of complications and with extreme dexterity. FANTASTIC. !!

I love this stuff--archival research and conservation where science meets the visual arts, with everyone speaking with delightfully impeccable English accents.

I completed four semesters or about 1 year of printing in my degree. I enjoyed it very much. I found the cleaning, repair and possibility of full restoration of this beautiful print mesmerising. Thank you

I was AMAZED at the size of the pieces!

I am so glad you people are out here fixing these! I love watching the videos, and my brain keeps popping up "well, learn how to do it! you need a career!" but... I think you are like doctors... I am in awe of what you do, fascinated by it, and exceptionally grateful, but I'd rather leave it to people with more confidence! Also, the music choice was absolutely wonderful.

Wow. This work the conservators do is amazing! Great video. So educational. Great footage and very well explained! I liked everything, specially the part around 7:04 when "they make their own strip of paper" WOW!!!

So good to see this level of expertise conserving both art and history. Well done to those experts.

Thank you to your wonderful team for seeing the great value in this piece as artisans and craftsmen and NOT as businessmen see it ($$$ only). And mostly...thank you for caring!

Brilliant! I think this would've been a good "before and after" situation.

incredibly detailed and painstaking work. Bloody well done to the guys working within the Museum!

that was great, pity allllll these restoration videos are not full length doco's

I know doing this work means a lot to you people or you wouldn't be doing it. I hope you know how much it means to art lovers too. Humans are really the most awful creatures to ever plague the earth and the only thing that makes us viable is our creation of Art and Music and Writing. We do nothing else that would absolve us from the evil we all inflict on each other and the other living things around us. Durer's etchings are world renowned and this one, in particulaR, IS A MASTERPIECE. I also Love how technical restoration techniques are, it's mindboggling and the best use of science I can think of. Thank you all and to the 2 people who so generously donated the money to have this done, the last of the dying cultured people of the world THANK YOU.

I feel this Durer work should be scanned and printed onto fabric or canvas that can be rolled up for transfer to other museums . The fact that it survived with acids in the paper for so long is miraculous .

Thanks for putting this out, very interesting and inspiring. I was especially impressed by the thickening of the paper with drops of paper fibre slurry. I hadn't heard of that technique.