Mieke Van Molle

Mieke Van Molle (Instructor for Introduction to the Conservation of Venice's Built Heritage) performs varied research and consultancy activities in the field of stone conservation and cultural heritage including several related publications. She holds a MA degree in Archaeology and History of Art from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and specialized in conservation at ICCROM, the Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Rome and the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Belgium.

She has worked as freelance conservator in Italy, Belgium and France, mainly in stone, stuccoes and mural paintings conservation. She collaborated with ICCROM from 1991 to 2009 for the development and implementation of international training programs on stone and mural paintings conservation, coordinating the last five ICCROM-UNESCO Venice International Stone Conservation Courses (1997-2009). Additionally, she taught stone conservation at the Università Internazionale dell’Arte, Venice from 2001-2004.

From 2005 to 2008 she was Head of the Permanent Office of the Association of International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice, which included the coordination of conservation, research and cultural promotion projects financed by the Private Committees in the framework of the UNESCO-Private Committees Program for the Safeguarding of Venice, in close cooperation with the Superintendencies for the Care of Cultural Property.