Antonio Mirabile is a paper conservator and a consultant in preventive conservation. He works regularly for the Musees de France, mainly with architecture and contemporary drawing and for the contemporary drawings collection of the Guerlain Foundation. As UNESCO expert he worked in various paper conservation projects in Yemen, Egypt, Mongolia, DPRK, Uzbekistan and Mauritania.

Today he shares his professional activities between UNESCO missions, preventive conservation assignments, paper conservation treatments and scientific research, in particular with the University of Florence, where he is involved in the development of innovative methods for the improvement of conservation treatments. Since 2006 he started to cooperate with conservators in Brazil, where he teaches paper conservation and preventive conservation via short trainings and master classes.

He is the author and co-author of about 30 articles and wrote two handbooks published by UNESCO. He is an active member of INCCA, ICOM and the Blue Shield.