Restoration

Restoration is directly related to the global issue of preservation of cultural heritage. Restorers should be qualified to revive, thereby protecting them, artifacts and sites of national, regional and world-wide cultural significance. The immense diversity of materials, techniques and technologies needed for this task, and the mandatory profound knowledge of factors detrimental to monuments of any kind, make experts in restoration face a number of requirements for specific expertise in different fields. Restorers need to have a grasp on chemistry, physics, biology and other related subjects, to be able to sort out the multitude of problems in restoring objects, or monuments of art; they also need to select the iron narrower scope of action, and to be able to interpret the results obtained. Needless to say, restorers' education and training is based on the contemporary international standards and require mends for their profession. All this makes it necessary for restorers to be MA university graduates, qualified to do research, build documentation, provide expert opinion on the state of cultural sites/objects, and on the causes for the processes of destruction; to prepare restoration programmes, develop restoration projects, manage, implement and monitor them; to intervene directly when restoration is needed, to develop restoration methods and technologies to make recommendations for the exhibiting, maintenance, and transportation of the restored objects.

Head of Discipline

Assoc. Prof. STEFAN TAPANOV

Full-Time Lecturers

Prof. GRIGORI GRIGOROV

Prof. Dr. VESSELINA INKOVA

Assoc. Prof. MLADOST VULKOVA

Prof. Dr. VALENTIN TODOROV

Assoc. Prof. STEFAN TAPANOV

Assistant Prof. STEFAN BELISHKI

ZDRAVKO KAMENAROV

Assoc. Prof. ROSEN TZVETANOV

Dr. KRASIMIRA FRANGOVA