Friday, March 15, 2024 at 12:00 p.m

The exhibition "FRACTURES OF TIME restoration and presentation of valuable glass material from the vaults of the Archaeological Museum in Split" is a specialist exhibition that aims to present the original archaeological glass material, viewed from the point of view of the conservation and restoration profession. It arose from the desire to transfer the knowledge and acquired skills of the Department for Restoration and Research, which operates as part of the Department for Professional Museum Affairs of MAS, to a wider professional and other interested public. These efforts of the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar were connected with the planning of the protection of exclusive Roman-era materials from the Archaeological Museum in Split and with the aspiration to raise the restoration service in the specialist field of glass materials conservation to a higher level in that museum as well. Therefore, within the framework of inter-institutional cooperation between these two museums, a two-month professional training of colleague Zrinka Bajić Franković was conducted, organized under the leadership of Dr. sc. Šime Perović in the workshops of the Museum of Ancient Glass, and in addition to working on material from the collections of the Archaeological Museum in Split. During 2023, 45 selected objects were processed within the framework of the mentioned program, and due to the value of the exhibits as well as with the aim of presenting the specifics of the demanding conservation and restoration procedures, an exhibition and the eponymous catalog Fractures of Time - restoration and presentation of valuable glass materials from the vaults of the Archaeological Museum in Split are being organized. The author of the concept of the exhibition and catalog is Dr. sc. Šime Perović, and Ivana Matković, conservator-restorer at the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, and Ivana Zrinka Bajić Franković, senior conservator-restorer from the Archaeological Museum in Split, participated in the realization.