Tne National Museum, Vrsac installed the conservation atelier with preparatory workshop somewhere around 1949. In that conservation -restorational atelier the painter Karlo Napravnik a curator of the Art Department worked at that time. He attended the course of conservation and restoration in Zagreb, so he had necessary knowledge and rank to work on the protection of paintings together with the other jobs like acquisition and stocktaking of the collections of fine and applied arts. Since the founding of The City Museum in Vrsac until the end of forties of the 20 century the work of conservation, restoration and preparation were done by employing experts, exterior collaborators. The exhibits of science collection that are exposed and deposited in the Museum were prepared in the period between 1904 and 1913 and are still in very good condition.

After Karlo Napravnik conservation workshop together with carpenter workshop did the work on protection and restoration of archeological material (ceramics and metal) also including the items from Ethnological and Historical department. The other departments sent their items to the workshops specially equipped for the interventions of conservation and restoration.

Semi-trained workers of technical service used to work as conservators-preparators for they liked to work both on the conservation and restoration of the material either from the Museum or brought back from the terrain. To this effect the Museum organized courses in its own workshop, and some workers were sent to attend seminars, or to other workshops of the same or similar character for permanent training and exchange of experience in this specific job.

In the conservation practice it is extremely important to use already tested technological procedures and agents for chemical reactions together with its reversibility and subtlety, so that permanent collaboration with related workshops and some specialized training must be enabled all the time.

Since recently The National Museum, vrsac has employed qualified painter-conservator who was needed for a very long time. Extremely rich and according to the material very heterogeneous collection of The National Museum needs permanent control of condition, location and climate of the rooms in which the objects are.

The job of a conservator is not only focused on permanent control of depots, but also on the defining of priority activities, making the programmes for conservation-restoration treatments and taking accompanying documentation and photo docu men tation.

Conservation and restoration demand the collaboration of different professions especially in a museum of multidisciplinary type that The National Museum, Vrsac is, which would enable finding the best solution for problems of protection of museum material. Modern conservation needs some specific and highly specialized knowledge on one side, but also handicraft skill on the other. So the question of education and vocational training is of great importance for the conservators. Present workshop, we can say, which is being installed, is facing the problem of handing down the experience from elder colleagues who left the museum long ago. Knowledge and experience of previous semi-trained conservators can be found in their notes taken during the seminars, in conservatory dairies and accompanying documentation. Handing down the experience is precious and specific characteristic of conservators' practice. Also permanent specialized training following the professional literature, attending seminars, acquiring masters and doctors degrees are all the ways for permanent rising the level of knowledge and consciousness in this job.

Being able to choose the method and the material in conservatory procedures of practice I commit myself to traditional methods whose both positive and negative sides are well known. Talking about the specific instruments the workshop is equipped by: a microscope, UV lamp, apparatus for distillation, chamber and rectifier for electrolysis, modest chemically laboratory and carpenter workshop. Painters conservatory workshop is in need for smaller vacuum table and a tub for immersion of icons into wax-resinous matter.

For new methods and materials which were introduced in the world every day practice long ago, people should be trained and of course there must be the possibility of providing these materials. One of the characteristics of modern conservation is multidisciplinary. while examining the problem, discussion of the approach, previous testing and chemical analysis are of great importance for the choice of adequate conservatory procedure. All conservatory and restoration procedures should be followed by legitimate documentation, which has been computerized for a long time, only concerning the processing of the text. Documentary system as an integral programme which includes all the institutions of protection with standard forms, procedures and glossary has not been established yet.