I am a member of APT International, a group of professionals specializing in all things related to preservation of historic buildings. Each year, they partner with Italy's preservation association, AssoRestauro, to sponsor professionals in the US and Canada to visit Italy and see, first hand, ongoing restoration projects of incredible historic value. We visit job sites to speak with the architects, conservators, contractors, and craftspersons doing the work; we climb scaffolding and ladders, go into attics, tunnels, and basements of world heritage sites, and get to see exactly how precious artifacts, frescos, stone, masonry, and plaster are being cleaned, conserved, repaired, and preserved.











