National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property to restore murals on domes at Madras HC:
Week 14-21 Feb, 2016
● For years, salinity in the breeze wafting in from the Bay of Bengal and pigeon droppings have been affecting the murals on the onion-shaped domes of the Madras High Court building.
● Those weather-beaten paintings will, for the first time, get a new lease of life soon as the Lucknow-based National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLCCP), an organisation under the Union Ministry of Culture, will restore the paintings.
● The NRLCCP will restore the existing murals. The domes were constructed using fired bricks with three layers of lime plaster.
● Salt particles are the major reason for the damage to heritage structures.
● Restoration of the paintings at Raja Mannar Hall will also be taken up simultaneously.