Editorial staff

Chief editor – Ing. Alena Selucká

Alena Selucká studied at the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology. In 1991-1997 she worked at the Moravian Museum in the Department of Museology, where she developed the conservation laboratory and focused on emission spectral analysis, metallographic research, verification and application of conservation technologies. She was also involved in organizing and teaching students of the post-graduate study of Conservation of Collection Objects at the Moravian Museum and the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. Since 1997, she has been working at the Technical Museum in Brno, first as head of the Department of Collection Management and Preservation, and now as deputy for the Methodological Centre for Conservation. Her research work focuses on surface treatment of metal artefacts, application of electrochemical methods in metal conservation and preventive care of museum collections. She is also involved in teaching and training students in the field of conservation-restoration chemistry at the Faculty of Science and museology at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. She is the secretary of the Commission of Conservator-Restorers of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries and also its representative in the European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers Organisations. Besides educational activities, she is also engaged in publishing and editorial activities.

Editor (Secretary) – Mgr. Pavla Stöhrová

Pavla Stöhrová graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno in 1999 with a degree in ethnology and museology, then joined the Technical Museum in Brno as an editor and curator, where she has been working as a scientific secretary and head of the collections and information management department ever since. She is the author or co-author of museum exhibitions and displays, and contributes to the preparation of publications of the Technical Museum in Brno and professional articles, especially on the subject of museum collections. She is a researcher of research projects (NAKI II and NAKI III) and an external lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.

Editor – Mgr. Jana Fricová

Jana Fricová studied history-museology with a focus on museum conservation at the Silesian University in Opava and history and museology at Masaryk University in Brno with a focus on preventive conservation and the Middle Ages. Since 2013 he has been working at the Methodological Centre for Conservation of the Technical Museum in Brno as a coordinator and project worker. She is involved in the implementation, documentation and presentation of conservation work as well as research projects. She organizes workshops and conferences organized by the MCC TMB (Conference of Conservators-Restorers, Protection and Safety of Memory Institutions, Preventive Conservation Course, etc.). She is also involved in the creation and management of the branch library, the MCC web portal and the processing of publication outputs.

Technical cooperation – Eva Řezáčová
Translation – Mgr. Romana Sommerová
Proofreading editor – Mgr. et. Mgr. Blanka Kohoutová

Editorial board

Head of the Editorial Board – Ing. Ivo Štěpánek

Ivo Štěpánek graduated from the University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering Technology. During his studies he worked in the conservation workshops of the Technical Museum in Brno, where he was employed as head of the conservation workshops from 1986. In 1990-1993, he completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno in the field of museology. Since then he has been working at this university department as an external employee, among other things, he has participated in the formation of the professional content and teaching of conservation courses and four courses of the post-graduate study Laboratory Processing of Museum Collections organized in cooperation with the Moravian Museum and the School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. In 1998-2002, he also participated in the preparation of documents for the accreditation of the Bachelor’s degree course in Chemistry of Conservation-Restoration at the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, which was then accredited in 2002. During 1997-2003 he was the team leader of the project for the construction of the new museum and fourteen exhibitions of TMB. Since 1995, he has continuously held the position of Chairman of the Commission of Conservator-Restorers of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries and is a member of its Senate. Since 2006 he has been the representative of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries to the Czech Committee of the Blue Shield. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Exhibition Council of the National Museum in Prague.
He participated as the head of the editorial board in the preparation of the publication Metal Conservation and Restoration. Protection of cultural heritage objects made of metals and their alloys. He participated in the preparation of a number of publications, projects, concepts and grants. In 2017 he was appointed to the position of Director of the Technical Museum in Brno.

Ing. Pavel Jirásek

Pavel Jirásek is the Managing Director of Culture Tech s.r.o. In 2006-2009 he was the technical director and co-owner of Cultureplus, spol. s.r.o. Until 2006 he was the Director of the Department for the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage, Museums and Galleries of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (since 1999). He is one of the main creators of the Integrated System for the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. He has participated as a consultant, coordinator and developer of a number of projects in the field of protection and presentation of cultural heritage and creative industry. He has practical experience in the preparation of strategic materials for the Ministry of Culture (preparation and organizational support of the EEA/Norway Financial Mechanisms 2004 -2009 and the programming period of the Structural Funds 2007-2013), as well as in the practical use of European Commission programmes, EEA/Norway Financial Mechanisms and EU Structural Funds to support projects of cultural organizations, owners of museum collections and heritage objects. From 2001 to 2007 he was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Section for the Security of Cultural Institutions of the International Council of Museums ICMS ICOM, in 2006-2009 Chairman of the Council of the Centre for Documentation of Property Transfers of Cultural Property of the Victims of World War II, Institute for Contemporary History v.v.i. He has published at home and abroad, especially on the topics of development of cultural institutions, protection of cultural heritage and restitution of cultural property. He cooperates on a number of international projects organized by the International Council of Museums ICOM, the Council of Europe, the European Union, and UNESCO.

Ing. Jan Josef

Jan Josef is a conservator-restorer with thirty years of experience in the field of preventive and remedial conservation-restoration, technology and non-destructive research of collection objects. He is a member of the Commission of Conservators-Restorers of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries, in 1991-2002 he was a member of the Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the supervision of the restoration of the reliquary of St. Maurus. Among other things, he is co-author of the Document on the Profession of the Conservator-Restorer of the Czech Association of Museums and Galleries and the publication Conservation and Restoration of Metals – Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects Made of Metals and Their Alloys. He lectures on preventive conservation at the School of Museum Propaedeutics of the Association of Museums and Galleries. Currently, he works as a conservator in the restoration department of the National Heritage Institute in Prague.

doc. Akad. soch. Petr Kuthan

Petr Kuthan graduated from the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts, majoring in woodcarving. His professors at the Academy of Fine Arts were, for example, Vincenc Makovský, Karel Lidický and the great personality of the Czech restoration school, Prof. Bohuslav Slánský. In 1989, Petr Kuthan was a founding member of the professional association Archiv Historical Art Technology, which publishes the yearbook Technologia Artis, and in 1990 he also became a founding member of the Association of Restorers. He has been its chairman since 1995. He is a licensed restorer of polychrome and non-polychrome sculptures, wall paintings and sgraffito. From 2002 to 2016 he was head of the restoration department of the National Gallery in Prague. Since 2018, he has been employed at the National Heritage Institute in České Budějovice as the main guarantor in the project of the NAKI programme of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic The Speech of Material – Traditional Craftsmanship Technologies for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Lifestyle (co-researchers Charles University in Prague, National Technical Museum in Prague).

doc. Dr. Ing. Michal Ďurovič

Michal Ďurovič studied from 1979 to 1983 at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague (in the field of Technology of Polymer Production and Processing, Laboratory of Chemistry of Restoration of Works of Art), defended his doctoral thesis in the same field in 1995 and habilitated at the same university in 2013. Since 1983 he has worked as a technologist in the restoration department of the National Library and since 1989 he has worked at the National Archives in Prague as a researcher (since 1995 as head of the Department for the Care of the Physical Condition of Archival Materials). In 2014 he became the head of the Institute of Chemical Technology of Monument Restoration at the University of Technology in Prague. He has long been interested in natural science research in the field of conservation-restoration of paper documents, leather, parchments and photographic materials. He has led or co-directed a number of research projects (e.g. Bulk deacidification of paper archival materials, Effect of light and ultraviolet radiation on archival documents, Protection of archival materials against natural disasters in the network of archives of the Czech Republic, Methodology for assessing the impact of air quality on library and archival collections, Biodiversity of black and white photographic and cinematographic materials in archival collections and methods of their disinfection, etc.). He has authored or co-authored a number of works in the field of conservation-restoration of archival materials. Among the most important publication activities is the publication of the book Restoration and Conservation of Archival Materials and Books by Paseka Publishing House in 2002. He is a member of the scientific councils of the University of Pardubice, the National Library of the Czech Republic, the National Archives and the Artistic Council of the Faculty of Restoration of the University of Pardubice. He was a member of the International Council on Archives and the European Working Group on Disaster Prevention. In 2006, he participated in training Iraqi restorers in Irbil and building a restoration facility for the Iraqi National Library and Archives in Baghdad, and in 2004 and 2010 he lectured and trained restorers in Lima, Peru.

Ing. Radka Šefců

Radka Šefců specializes in historical painting techniques, identification of art materials, pigments, dyes and binders by analytical methods. After graduating from the University of Chemical Technology in Prague at the Institute of Chemical Technology of Restoration of Monuments, majoring in restoration and conservation of monuments, she worked for three years in a private company as a professional technologist. In 1998, she joined the chemical laboratory of the National Gallery Prague, where she has been working ever since. Since 2016, she has been the head of the chemical laboratory at the NGP. Her research specializes in natural history surveys, which are implemented into a comprehensive knowledge of the material nature of artworks and are the basis for assessing painting and polychrome techniques. She develops and puts into practice new instrumental techniques used for non-invasive and non-destructive analysis of artworks. She is researcher of several scientific grant projects within the programmes of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. She is involved in research projects at the National Gallery in Prague (GAČR, NAKI of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic). Within the scope of her professional expertise, she cooperates with other state collection-building institutions (National Museum Prague, National Heritage Institute, National Library) and professional institutions, such as the University of Chemical Technology Prague, Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University Prague, Institute of Art History and Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Criminalistics of the Police of the Czech Republic. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed and refereed articles, contributed to the preparation of several monographs, catalogues, other professional papers and lectures. She is a member of ICOM-CC, European Microscopy Society, Czechoslovak Microscopy Society and the Commission of Conservators-Restorers of Czech Association of Museums and Galleries.

Akad. mal. Igor Fogaš

Painter and restorer, holder of a licence from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for restoration of cultural monuments in the techniques of painting on canvas, wood, metal, wall painting and polychromy of sculptural works. Court expert for the basic field of economics, branch of prices and estimates with special specialization in restoration, conservation and restoration works and for the basic field of education and culture, branch of fine arts with special specialization in drawing, painting, polychromy of free and applied arts, conservation and restoration. He graduated in restoration of surface disciplines at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1990). In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Adalbert Stifter Verein in Munich for the restoration of oil on canvas. From 2001 to 2017 he worked at the Moravian Gallery in Brno as head of the restoration department, which provided comprehensive restoration of collection objects, restoration preparation of exhibition projects and research activities. He is one of the researchers of the international project MOLAB for research of paintings within the framework of the EU grant ARTECH. He is also the researcher of the grant Research on techniques and materials of painting, sculpture and applied arts. Author of the modification of the technology of scanning paintings in infrared and the exhibition Art Restoring Art. He cooperates with the Pro Arte Fund to assess the authenticity, condition, preservation and appreciation of works of art.

doc. Mgr. art. Jakub Ďoubal, Ph.D.

Jakub Ďoubal is the head of the Stone Restoration Studio at the Faculty of Restoration at the University of Pardubice and the guarantor of the study programmes. He studied stone restoration at the Institute of Restoration and Conservation Techniques in Litomyšl, then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. After obtaining his master’s degree, he completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University and in 2017 he received the title of associate professor in the field of restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. After completing his studies, he attended the prestigious course “Stone Conservation” in Rome, organized by ICCROM and The Getty Conservation Institute under the auspices of UNESCO.
In addition to teaching, he specializes in the restoration of sculpture. In the course of his professional career, he has participated in the restoration of important monuments such as St. Barbara’s Cathedral, the Plague Column and the Stone Fountain in Kutná Hora, the Gothic tombstone of Arnost of Pardubice in Kłodzko, Poland, and the sculpture of St. Francis of Seraphim and the statue of Bruncvík on the Charles Bridge in Prague.
He specializes in the cleaning of monuments and conducts research in the field of stone restoration, plaster casts and polychromy. Jakub Ďoubal is the author of a number of articles in international and national journals and several books, including Stone Monuments of Kutná Hora: Restoration and Care of Sculpture, Introduction to Restoration of Stone Monuments and Plaster Casts: Restoration and Care of Sculpture. He is also a member of international professional committees, such as the Scientific Committee of the International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, and the editorial board of the International Journal of Young Conservators.