The Belvederes restoration and conservation department is dedicated to the preservation and care, restoration, and technological research into the art and cultural assets of the Belvederes collection, which ranges from the Middle Ages to contemporary art. Its mission is to record and preserve objects of historical and cultural significance. Conserving these irreplaceable originals requires a methodical and scientific approach in order to shed light on the historical, stylistic, iconographical, technological, and material aspects of the artworks. With this in mind, the Belvederes conservators devise appropriate strategies. On average, the department conserves and restores 150 paintings and frames each year, and frames and mounts between 100 and 150 graphic works.

Restoration in Public
Over two years visitors had the chance to experience the biggest public restoration project in the Belvederes history and experience on site how a masterpiece is being examined, conserved, restored, and scientifically analyzed.
Rueland Frueauf the Elder
It was around 1490 and probably for the Cathedral or Saint Peters Abbey in Salzburg that Rueland Frueauf the Elder (1440/451507) created a winged altar, eight panels of which are now preserved in the Belvederes collection of medieval art. These outstanding works of late Gothic art are now being restored for the first major Rueland Frueauf exhibition to be held at the Lower Belvedere in autumn 2015.