All too often, the notion of heritage is associated with that of public collections. However, article L.1 of the French Heritage Code defines the term “heritage” as follows:

For the purposes of the present code, heritage is defined as all property, whether real or personal, in public or private ownership, which is of historical, artistic, archaeological, aesthetic, scientific or technical interest.

Thanks to over eight years' experience in museums, I can help you get to know your collection better.

   Inventory
   Digitization
   Conservation advice
   Reconditioning


When it comes to conservation, it doesn't matter whether a work is part of a public or private collection; the common issue is that of preservation over time, in a temporality that exceeds the scale of a human lifetime. This problem is even more acute in the case of private collections, since their nature as “movable property” gives them a financial value, based on their appraisal at a given point in time.It can be used as a basis for calculating insurance values, or as an asset value when valuing an estate, for example, without forgetting that it is up to the collector alone to reinject them, at any time, into the art market. This is also one of the objectives of conservation - to guarantee the value of an asset - in the very specific case of private collections, an objective that cannot be pursued by the person in charge of a public collection.


One of the fundamental aspects of inventory work is marking.

This can have three functions:

   Identification by traditional marking of inventory numbers (inks, pencils, felt-tip pens, paints, to be adapted according to the media),

   Management, using automated information processing techniques (barcodes and radio-frequency chips for the most recent systems),

   Security to combat theft and illicit trafficking of cultural goods (inks based on special pigments, scientific imaging techniques). The OCBC (Office central de lutte contre le trafic de biens culturels) recommends documenting cultural property with a scientific file and photographic coverage, in order to be able to claim ownership of recovered property.
 

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