PRESERVATION OF TREASURES
The conservator Svetla Koynova working over the mural paintings in Preobrazhenski (Holy Transfiguration) Monastery, Bulgaria
© Atanas Kanchev
The specialists who preserve monuments of culture are called preservers. They strengthen their fragile matter, restore parts that have disappeared – if they have reliable data about them, restore the life and spirit of treasures and adapt them to contemporary life.