Learning Objectives
Themes
The masters degree in conservation and restoration of cultural heritage intends to train graduates who must:
• have thorough, specific skills in the most advanced methods and techniques regarding the prevention of physical-chemical-biological damage to conservation and restoration of cultural heritage;
• have advanced scientific knowledge of materials that constitute cultural heritage, their physical-chemical properties, their deterioration processes and interaction with the conservation environment;
• have the ability to intervene in emergency situations of cultural heritage, starting up suitable action in catastrophes;
• have specific skills in treatments and interventions to be carried out on materials and their conservation environment, to prevent or limit deterioration;
• have the capacity to monitor and evaluate suitability of the conservation environment, and to organise and manage micro-climate control of cultural heritage conservation environments;
• known how to manage the design and realisation of maintenance, conservation and restoration in all its phases, using the most modern and least invasive methods, also using or coordinating different areas of knowledge;
• have the capacity of planning diagnostic protocols aimed at analysing and evaluating the state of conservation of cultural heritage and the ongoing deterioration processes;
• promote knowledge of these methods and techniques in both a scientific and applicational context;
• possess thorough knowledge of at least one European language other than Italian.
The course lasts five years and follows one of the main professional training paths regulated by the Min. Decree. 87/2009;
• Items painted on wood and fabric, wooden sculptures, furnishings and wooden structures, items in synthetic materials that are assembled or painted (PFP2).