{"id":24217,"date":"2026-04-16T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/activity\/conservation\/pracownia-konserwacji-ram-i-pozlotnicza\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:20:46","slug":"frame-conservation-and-gilding-studio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/activity\/conservation\/frame-conservation-and-gilding-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Frame Conservation and Gilding Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/konserwacja-ram_original-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"Du\u017ca sala z bordowymi \u015bcianami i \u015bwietlikiem w suficie, w kt\u00f3rej grupa ludzi ci\u0105gnie liny przy du\u017cej z\u0142otej ramie ustawionej obok rusztowa\u0144 i drabiny; po lewej cz\u0119\u015bciowo widoczny obraz i owini\u0119te foli\u0105 krzes\u0142a, na pierwszym planie kobieta widziana od ty\u0142u.\" class=\"wp-image-19869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/konserwacja-ram_original-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/konserwacja-ram_original-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/konserwacja-ram_original-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/konserwacja-ram_original.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The studio\u2019s mission is the conservation of historic frames on paintings and other pictorial works in all the departments of the National Museum in Krakow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its team provides care for objects made of wood, coated with gold and silver leaf, gilding bronzes, and other metals. This involves woodcarving, e.g. to reproduce missing sculptural ornaments, gypsum casting and preparation of plastic masses used in framing, as well as making new frames according to old designs and technologies. In addition to these, the studio\u2019s tasks include conserving decorative art objects \u2013 clocks, gilded furniture and candlesticks.<br><br>The conservation of gilded wooden objects is a multi-stage process encompassing wood impregnation (to secure substance damaged by wood-eaters), repair of the frame\u2019s structure, protection of the existing original parts of the gilding, chemical and mechanical cleaning, filling in missing parts with adequate materials (wood, plastic mass, stucco), and also execution of gilding and silvering in a variety of techniques.<br><br>In recent years, examples of restoration works on historic frames and production of new ones include jobs done for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the Gallery of 20th-century Polish Art in the Main Building (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Bishop Erazm Cio\u0142ek Palace (2007)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Gallery of 19th-century Polish Art in the Sukiennice (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the EUROPEUM\u00a0Centre for European Culture (2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Karol Szymanowski Museum in the Villa Atma (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team studio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stanis\u0142aw Grzegorz Ta\u0144cula<\/strong> \u2013 head<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beata Felu\u015b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barbara Kope\u0107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Main Building<br>al. 3 Maja 1<br>tel. \u00a0+48 12 \u00a0433 55 86<br><a href=\"mailto:ramy@mnk.pl\">ramy@mnk.pl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The studio\u2019s mission is the conservation of historic frames on paintings and other pictorial works in all the departments of the National Museum in Krakow. Its team provides care for objects made of wood, coated with gold and silver leaf, gilding bronzes, and other metals. This involves woodcarving, e.g. to reproduce missing sculptural ornaments, gypsum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":24188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24217\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}