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Conservation-restoration covers three areas: preventive conservation, curative conservation and restoration.

Preventive conservation

It involves indirect action on a cultural asset. It acts on the causes of deterioration, in order to delay, through a series of measures, any deterioration or to prevent the risks of alteration by creating optimal conditions for the handling, use, transport, packaging, storage and display of cultural goods.

conservation-preventive

Curative conservation

It involves direct action on a cultural object. It acts on the effects of deterioration, and is compulsory if the object's integrity is threatened. Its aim is to halt damage in progress.

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Catering

It consists of direct intervention on the work to restore or facilitate its legibility.
This action respects the aesthetic, historical and physical integrity of the object. It is sometimes considered optional.