Imperial Porcelain Restoration — Practice for Regional Museums
The Baranivka Museum launches a five-month conservation programme for 19th-century imperial porcelain for staff of porcelain museums in Korosten, Polonne and Kyiv.
In January 2026 a five-month conservation programme for 19th-century imperial porcelain began at the restoration workshop of the Baranivka Porcelain Museum. Participants in the programme came from three other Ukrainian porcelain centres — Korosten (Zhytomyr region), Polonne (Khmelnytskyi region) and the Kyiv Experimental Ceramic-Art Factory. The programme focuses on the most vulnerable exhibits: thin-walled imperial porcelain of the Empire era (1810s-1840s).
The programme curator — a restorer with thirty years of experience at the Baranivka Museum — teaches the full cycle of conservation operations: identification of Ukrainian kaolin deposits (Hluhovets, Prosyaniv, Volodymyr) by the chemical composition of the body; microscopic examination of the glaze; stabilisation of microcracks with acrylic consolidants; restoration of gilding without damage to authentic layers; documentation of restoration interventions. A separate lecture is a comparative analysis of the techniques of the four Ukrainian porcelain schools (Baranivka-Korosten-Polonne-Kyiv). Participants receive certificates recognised by the Ukrainian Restorers Association.
