Long hisory and multiplicity of the Iranian-Islamic art and civilization left us a gigantic heritage from the pas for the present and future generations of concerning countries as well as the whole world. This heritage includes rock reliefs, metal and ceramic objects, manuscripts and miniatures, woodworks, textiles, and architectural ornaments. After centuries or millennia, we have been handed over these works which might have been exposed to deterioration and sructural delicacies that need lots of serious attention through conservation and preservation. Temperature, humidity, lighting, pollutants, pess, human interventions via war or ignorance, vandalism as well as natural disasers are among factors that have always threatened hisorical works.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Iranian Conservation Science Journal. It provides a perfect opportunity to a specialized English-language devoted to publication of original & review contributions concerning science and technology for conservation and resoration of cultural heritage.
The journal will include up-to-date, high-quality, and original contributions - research papers, reviews, dealing with quesions on how, why and when Conservation Science occur and succeed, fail and disappear, and what can be done to influence the outcome. ICSJ is served by a very competent editorial board along with a network of scholars from all around the world and different disciplines helping to secure high-quality, originality and utility of the contributions – and, thereby, the impact of the work published in the journal...

To better serve its editors and authors and to improve communication, our organization has launched a new website for journals. The new Journals System is proud to announce its new electronic manuscript submission and review system. Submissions for 2017 will only be accepted through our new system.