ABOUT LUCILLA RONAI

Hi, I'm a professional conservator (also known as a heritage conservator, art conservator, museum conservator or object doctor) with over 10 years of national and international experience. I repair and preserve material culture and artefacts, with a bit of science and a lot of laughing. I work with a wide range of objects from paper, to books and photographs... and have been known to clean a helicopter or two!

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Currently I am the paper conservation lecturer for the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation program at the University of Melbourne. I have been fortunate to also work as a conservator at incredible places such as the National Library of Australia, Australian National Maritime Museum, Library of Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and State Library of Queensland.

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I have a passion for sharing my conservation work through my YouTube Channel 'The Conservation Starter'.

 

​Career Highlights include:

• Named 2021 Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) Conservator of the Year

• Collaborating with Sydney Analytical (University of Sydney)

• Receiving the 2019 Darling Travel Grant Global to travel around the USA researching cellulose nitrate and cellulose acetate

• Receiving the Nicholas Hadgraft Memorial Scholarship to attend the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School in Italy

• Handling a 5th century early Irish manuscript to assist with its digitisation

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Please feel free to contact me and find out more below.