Revolutionary non-contact cleaning method to be unveiled this month at Liverpool’s laser conservation conference

This month Italian government reaches decision on national oil company’s plan to extract gas from Adriatic

The Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican shows the master at his best

Getty conservators research new methods of protecting museum works from pests

Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century

Please touch, learn—and enjoy

The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor

Refurbishment has cost £2 million

£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece

Sainsbury money is helping restore the fifteenth-century, Venetian-style masterpiece shelled in 1991

A plan to reconstruct Mostar's historic centre

Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it

“A way of thinking that has visible form”

The Art Newspaper surveys the successes and failures of the much criticised organisation

A gentle heritage

International group of conservators consider the problems posed by the conservation of modern sculpture

Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art

After many set backs a new building is finally in the works, as well as plans for a modern solution to the dispersal of Egypt's treasures

The Getty's floating conference on the conservation of archaeological sites.

The masterwork at the Santa Maria delle Grazie re-opens to the public this month as restoration near completion

He plans to develop learning centres, nominate new World Heritage sites, preservation of monuments, and protection of Angkor

Sculptor conservators Taylor Pearce are working on Windsor, Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Hall

UNESCO threaten to de-list the building if central and regional governments refused to cooperate

30% of the movable cultural property in Croatia needs emergency treatment

A marriage of science and spectacle

The solution will involve low-tech improvements to the surroundings

The oldest working tapestry weavers in Flanders apply high-tech to some of the finest royal hangings

Can a human eye beat the latest technology?

All together now for the relaunched Technical Bulletin

Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque