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6. Recommendations
94. The following is a summary of the recommendations made or
implied in the preceding chapters:
I. Central Conservation Institute of Paintings and Drawings
(a) that the Government should undertake, as a national responsibility,
the establishment of a Central Conservation Institute
(paragraphs 9, 25, 76, 77);
(b) that this Institute should be charged with the following functions:
(i) conservation and restoration of paintings and drawings in
public and private collections, supplementing but not replacing
the conservation and scientific departments in public
museums and galleries;
(ii) training in the conservation of paintings (including mural
paintings) and drawings;
(iii) research into the scientific, technical and historical problems
and implications of conservation, and maintenance of
records of conservation work;
(iv) dissemination of information concerning conservation by
means of lectures and publications, the provision of a technical
library and facilities for discussion and in such other
ways as may seem appropriate;
(e) that this Institute should be situated in Central London (paragraph
78);
(d) that this Institute should be closely associated, by representation
on its governing body and in other ways, with the national
museums and galleries and other bodies carrying out or concerned
with conservation (paragraph 88);
(e) that this Institute should be financed, as to its recurrent expenses
by:
(i) a Government grant-in-aid;
(ii) earned income from the restoration of paintings and
drawings; and from investigation and research undertaken,
and advice given, on their conservation;