Ludbreg, the Batthyány Castle, May - June 2008
Ludbreg Conservation Centre presented its activity from 2005-2007 with a poster exhibition. It was focused on conservation-restoration work on the immovable heritage of continental Croatia, that were carried out by restorers of the Ludbreg Conservation Centre in cooperation with other Croatian Conservation Institute departments (Workshop for Paper and Leather, Department for Textiles and Department for Wooden Polychrome Sculpture) in the Ludbreg Conservation Centre workshops, which is situated at a former castle and provides the spatial facilities needed for complex conservation tasks.
Another important activity of the Ludbreg Conservation Centre is the desinsection of wooden and textile artworks, which has been carried out in a special fumigation chamber since 2004.
A number of workshops and conferences were organized at the BatthyányCastle, the International Conference on Conservation-Restoration – ICOR, being the most significant. A workshop which deserves a special mention is the “Historic Types of Marbling and Possibilities of Their Conservation” held in 2007, with a follow-up exhibition titled “Architectural-Building stone in Croatia”, in cooperation with the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum in Zagreb. Two other workshops organized by the UNESCO Office for Southeastern Europe in Venice should also be mentioned: “The Communication of Heritage” (2007) and “Antique Mosaics in the Mediterranean” (2008).