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Museum restoration fund

TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund

The TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund is established in 2012 in order to support and promote the professional restoration and related scholarly research of significant museum artworks. Championing art in all its forms, applications for its grants are open to museums from all over the world and artworks from any age. Each year, a maximum of €50.000 will be allocated to projects. The Committee of independent experts usually selects two winners to receive each € 25,000 to support their restoration project.

HOW TO APPLY FOR 2021

All public museums are welcome to apply for the grant before the deadline on April 1, 2021. For the application form to submit your project and any questions, please contact Coco Bannenberg via Coco.Bannenberg@TEFAF.com.

Please note, restoration projects that have already begun are eligible as well and projects need not be finished before they are announced in TEFAF’s communications and/or at one of the fairs in Maastricht or New York.

Guidelines and Terms & Conditions for 2021 (pdf 0.2mb)

THE COMMITTEE

The applications are reviewed and selected by an independent panel of experts — the 2021 panel includes:

RACHEL KAMINSKY

Private art dealer from New York and former head of Old Master Paintings at Christie’s.

DR. KENSON KWOK

Founder and former director of the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Peranakan Museum in Singapore.

CAROL POTTASCH

Senior restorer/conservator from the Mauritshuis, The Hague.

ASHOK ROY

Museum scientist and leading international expert on the materials and techniques of European Old Master Paintings.

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS

2020

Museum Restoration Fund

Lacma: The Restoration of ‘Pieta’ by Melchor Pérez Holguin

Considering its age, the work is in good condition, but it requires a careful restoration, which is in progress under Joseph Fronek, Head of Paintings Conservation.

January 2, 2020

Museum Restoration Fund

Victoria & Albert Museum: The Restoration Of The Kaufmann Office By Frank Lloyd Wright

Through the restoration process, the V&A will gain insight into how the office was constructed and this information will be of interest to expert conservators around the world.

January 24, 2020

2019

Museum Restoration Fund

Volkenkunde Museum: Restoring The Kawahara Keiga Screen

Restorient invites you inside their studio to give you an exclusive view of the Kawahara Keiga screen during its restoration.

January 13, 2019

Museum Restoration Fund

National Gallery London: The Restoration of Van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

Learn how it took a small army of people to clean, repair and restore one of the National Gallery’s largest paintings:

January 15, 2019