EHV - Benedictine Abbey - Conservation and Restoration

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Польша, małopolskie, Kraków, Benedyktyńska, 37

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When

21.07.2019 — 03.08.2019

Minimum daysNot specified

Maximum daysNot specified

Application deadlineNo end date

Who is needed

Male, Female

from 18 to 30

Number of Working Hours30 per day

Days Off Per Week2

Description

The Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec is the oldest monastery in Poland, with almost one thousand years of history. Over the ages, it went through periods of prosperity and decline, until its dissolution in 1816 and re-opening in 1939. Today, rebuilt from ruins, it is open to guests wishing to experience the living Benedictine tradition. The project will be very intensive and consist of two parts – a practical working part and a study part. The practical working part, which will be at different parts of the site, will last six hours per day. In the evenings and during the weekend, educational and cultural activities will take place. The volunteering project at Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec is an opportunity to be in close touch with cultural heritage – the volunteers will have the chance to live and work for two weeks in a 1.000 years old monastery. The volunteers will be engaged in supporting the actual conservation of marble decoration in the church at Tyniec Abbey. The programme is designed to let the whole group be closely involved into the conservation process at all levels that are possible for non-professionals – cataloguing, photographic documentation, measuring, drawing, reconnaissance and documentation of the state of preservation, objects' cleaning from surface dirt – such as wax, paint or plaster splashes, removing of weathered surface from marble decorations, polishing and marble surface preservation. Depending on the time the conservatory works may be supplemented with conservation and restoration of wooden sculptures from the church. The conservation activities will be preceded by the theoretical introduction on history, history of art as well as conservation and restoration techniques. Except field works the volunteers will be asked to prepare a short presentation of issues in cultural heritage current in their countries. During their free time the volunteers will have opportunities to visit monuments and sites iconic for the cultural heritage of Kraków and Lesser Poland.