TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund Supports: the Montefiore Mainz Mahzor | TEFAF New York
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TEFAF’s first grant of 2022 will conserve the Montefiore Mainz Mahzor – a cultural, religious, and research object that is more than 700 years old
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is a recipient of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, a grant program created in support of the international art community’s vital work to preserve artistic and cultural heritage. The MFAH is the largest cultural institution in the southwest region of the United States with an encyclopedic collection of nearly 70,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present. With TEFAF’s funding, the MFAH will conserve, using culturally appropriate methods, the Montefiore Mainz Mahzor (circa 1310–20), a festival prayer book and one of the rare Hebrew “illuminated manuscripts”—hand-written books with painted decorations—still in existence.
The book will be on view at TEFAF New York from May 6 through 10, 2022. MFAH conservation efforts will begin later this year.
For further information about the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, please visit this link.