Conservação e reestruturação da obra Description de L’egypte

Abstract

The present work is a study of the work Description de L'Egypte, belonging to the MEASB and conceived by Napoleon Bonaparte during an expeditionary campaign to Egypt at the end of the XVIII century. Conducts bibliographic research on preventive conservation in support of paper and promotes the implementation of methods such as cleaning. It addresses concepts of Museum and Memorial, with the purpose of discussing their differences, in addition to tracing the chronology of teaching agriculture in Bahia until the foundation of MEASB. It also discusses the history of paper,composition, degrading agents and methods for their conservation, as well as studies the elements intrinsic to the work. It allowed to conclude that the object of study lacks proper packaging, periodic surveillance and restoration.