Conservator of Antiquities and Works of Art
Metals Conservation Laboratory
gkaramargiou@culture.gr

Georgia Karamargiou is a graduate of the SAWA department of the TEI of Athens and permanent Conservator of Antiquities and Works of Art since 1993, after a written competition of the Ministry of Culture. She was initially assigned to the 4th EPCA, to the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion and then to the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, gaining extensive experience in the conservation of ceramics and metals, in the removal of antiquities from excavations, as well as in the preventive conservation of mosaics and sculptures, through organization laboratory and proper storage. After about four years, she moved to the National Archaeological Museum, in the Metal Conservation Laboratory, gaining great experience in the conservation of difficult cases but also expertise in the support of large bronze statues from all over Greece and in the support of much smaller objects of all materials, with a significant contribution to the exhibitions of ΝAM, permanent or periodic, in Greece or abroad. For a short period of time she worked at the ΝΑΜ Sculpture Conservation Laboratory in order to re-conserve the sculptures that would travel to the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. He has previous experience with a fixed-term contract and internship at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, the Archaeological Museum of Lamia, as well as with a well-known mosaic artist, gaining significant experience in the manufactory of Byzantine mosaics.