Students internship takes place at the Academy

A restorer’s practice on tempera painting takes place in the Moscow Theological Academy on the basis of the Museum of Christian Art «Church-Archaeological Cabinet». 

First year students-restorers of the Church Arts Faculty at the St. Tikhon’s Humanitarian University do internship under the guidance of O.S. Voskresenskaya, Head of the Museum restoration department, a senior lecturer at the Moscow Theological Academy.

At the moment the students are working on eleven icons from the funds of the Museum of Christian Art «Church-Archaeological Cabinet».

Before the internship had started on June 15, an extended Restoration Council including experienced restorers from other museums and restoration workshops approved a restoration task. Students will describe and study icons in detail, draw up cartograms of destruction and perform a number of necessary conservations works. Practice lasts until July 15.

Thanks to the cooperation between the Department of the St. Tikhon’s Humanitarian University and the Museum of Christian Art «Church-Archaeological Cabinet» at the Moscow Theological Academy such internships have been carried out since 2021.

MThA Press Office