of the environment in which a work is displayed and stored. This practices been recently demonstrates in the restoration of batik painting by Chew Kiat Lim ‘Adventure’, 1969 and ‘Alibi Catur Pulau Bidong’ 1980 an installation piece by Ponirin Amin for the thematic exhibition entitled ‘French Connexions’ in the Gallery. The conservation team has invited Ponirin Amin to the conservation studio to restore and discussed the best method to install his work. They also communicates with Chew Kiat Lim whose resides in Canada on how to restore and the best way to present his batik painting to the audience after more than 30 years its kept the storage room. Collaboration with other institutions and research organization such as APTCCARN (Asia Pacific Tropical Climate Conservation Art Research Network) is given the advantage to the department to extend the range of expertise to cover the care not only easel painting and works on paper but also of wall painting, installation and new media art with an increasing emphasis on the care of contemporary art. The National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia has it vision to establish a centre which especially to emphasis its core mission to collect, to preserve and in the best manner to disseminates the visual information in visual to the now and future generation. The centre will also provide the expertise in conservation and storage the art collection from public and private collection and indirectly will encourage the development of visual art in Malaysia.
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