MA Conservation-Restoration
The Master’s degree programme in Conservation-Restoration trains conservators and restorers who can understand art and cultural artefacts in their material, expressive and historical complexity and record them methodically, evaluate findings scientifically, and engage with them in a preventive or remedial way. The wide-ranging academic and practical training is a prerequisite for practising the profession independently. Students can specialise in one of eight areas. The Master’s degree emphasises curative conservation, restoration and interventions on objects.
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Organisation
Perspectives
Conservators and restorers work as freelancers or as employees of museums, private collections, archives, libraries or institutions of monument conservation, for companies or for private individuals. Their core competency lies in assessing and applying historical, common and new techniques for preserving and caring for cultural artefacts with particular problems of conservation and restoration. A high level of specialisation and the diversity of objects to be treated mean that that the professional field is pluridisciplinary: it requires active collaboration with other conservators, restorers, natural scientists, artists, archaeologists, craftspeople and ethnographers. One important area of work lies in research and development, as well as in teaching.
Degree
The degree concludes with a Master of Arts UAS in Conservation-Restoration.
According to European standards, the Master of Arts in Conservation-Restoration enables graduates to independently pursue careers in conservation and restoration, to manage projects and to enter an advanced PhD programme.
