Konservering inför utställning - fallstudie kring bemålade vävtapeter på Röhsska museet
The aim of this paper is to highlight issues and potential problems regarding conservation inan exhibition situation. The thesis presents a case study from the Röhsska museum, inGothenburg, where an interior of painted tapestries was currently being conserved andrestored. The study includes general history about the painted tapestries, conservation historyand information about the current treatments.The painted tapestries originates from a former manor [sv: säteri] in Gothenburg calledHökälla and were donated to the Röhsska museum in 1916. The tapestries were a part of themuseum?s permanent exhibition until 1996, when it was dismounted and put in storage. Withthe museum?s centenary approaching an alteration to some of the exhibition space was takingplace and the painted tapestries were to be displayed again. The conservation/restorationincluded removal of secondary paint layers of distemper and retouching, which may beconsidered as a quite extensive measure of restoration. The benefits and disadvantages of thisare being discussed as well as the probability of the same treatment being carried out at adifferently orientated museum. This, however, proved a somewhat difficult theory to argue.Instead the general opinion seems to have been that the chosen action ofconservation/restoration is depending on the specific object and the conservator performingthe conservation, rather than the orientation of the museum.