The exhibition From a screw to a tram discovers the work of restorers and conservators and is on view from October 4, 2022 until the end of February 2023.
The exhibition, which we have prepared in cooperation with the Museum of the Slovenian Police and which will be on display in the display cases of the General Police Administration building in Ljubljana on Slovenska cesta, will present the conservation and restoration of various materials and their protection procedures in words and photographs. In order to best present the mentioned procedures, we will also exhibit various objects at different stages of restoration, namely at the beginning, during the process and after the process is finished.
Conservation and restoration of museum exhibits are one of the most important activities of the museum, which preserve many objects that would have been destined for gradual decay without these interventions.
“The present exhibition presents an overview of the work of the TMS conservation and restoration service over the past twenty years. We selected items from various collections that were the most interesting or challenging to restore. Iron lungs, the Tomos colibri moped and knitting machines are certainly among them,” said Drago Štimec, head of the conservation and restoration service.
The photo shows the iron lungs that were used in the intensive care unit of the infectious disease clinic in Ljubljana for artificial respiration of patients with polio (Photo: Darko Gostiša).
