Museums are invited to apply for a €50,000 fund that supports the restoration of artworks.
The fund is managed by the European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf), a not-for-profit arts organisation that was created in 1988 and runs two international fine art, antiques and design fairs in Maastricht and New York. Each year, a committee usually selects two recipients that receive €25,000 each for a restoration project.
The Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund was established in 2012 and has supported projects by internationally renowned museums all over the world. It aims “to support and promote the professional restoration and related scholarly research of significant museum artworks from around the world and through the ages”.
The deadline for applications for this year’s grant is 30 September. Applications can be made here.
The committee that selects the museums that will receive grants comprises Rachel Kaminsky (US), Kenson Kwok (Singapore), Carol Pottasch (Netherlands), Ashok Roy (UK), and Nicholas Penny (UK).
Last year’s recipients of the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund were the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in the US.
The National Gallery of Ireland received funding to restore Ludovico Mazzolino’s (c1480 -c1530) The Crossing of the Red Sea (1521), which has been part of its collection for over a century.