Museum house of Goethe - Rome

The Museum House of Goethe in Rome, is located in Via del Corso 18, opposite the Rondanini Palace. Goethe sojourned in the apartment on the first floor from 1786 until 1788. This apartment, together with other adjacent apartments, became the Museum House of Goethe after large scale reconstruction work that impacted, among the other things, all the painted wooden ceilings of the house. A conservative surface and structural restoration (see section "Paintings on the woods and canvas") was carried out on the wooden ceilings of the rooms and their decorations. An environmental monitoring system providing controlled climatization and humidification was subsequently installed in the museum to prevent phenomena such as lifting and collapsing paint from damaging the paintings. Damage not related to the management of the museum but to improper that were due to improper use in an apartment on the upper floors led to water infiltrations that lasted years. The resulting structural damage to the ceilings required in-depth maintenance work.
(Photo by P.Soriani)