Konserwatorski palimpsest we wnętrzach Kamienicy Krauzowskiej w Krakowie

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CONSERVATION PALIMPSEST IN THE INTERIORS OF THE KRAUZOWSKA TOWNHOUSE IN KRAKOW: AN EDUCATIONAL EXAMPLE

This article presents and compares three fundamentally different conservation programmes of the rooms on the first floor of the Krauzowska (from the surname Krauze) Townhouse – the headquarters of the Society of Friends of Kraków History and Heritage at 12 Jana Street in Krakow. The programmes were based on the results of extensive conservation research – archival, stratigraphic/archaeological, architectural and analytical. As a result of these, and in response to various circumstances – expert opinions, functional conditions and the state of preservation of individual historical layers in different areas of the building – three different programmes were developed in accordance with the same conservation doctrine, showing above all the different styles of artistic finishing. This example clearly demonstrates the creative aspect of conservation work, the various possibilities of interpretation in compliance with the principles of the Athens Charter, the Venice Charter and all subsequent ICOMOS doctrinal documents in force, as well as those developed at conservation congresses. Because of its uniqueness and especially its educational value – the demonstration of various conservation possibilities in one valuable and repeatedly transformed building – the site has become part of the curriculum in the training of architectural conservators in post-graduate studies at the Technical University of Krakow and appears on the itinerary of various specialist presentations.