Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
Arts and Humanities
General information
- 240 ECTS
- 4 years
- The training of the preserver-restorer is aimed at creating highly qualified professionals who are able to reflect on and intervene in the tasks of conservation, restoration and documentation so that historical and artistic events are well understood
- To conserve cultural assets, which consists of examining and diagnosing cultural assets for their preventive and curative conservation and restoring and documenting them. Conserver-restorer is a profession that requires training, knowledge, skills and experience in order to conserve cultural assets for the future pursuant to an ethical and professional code of conduct. They must respect the original character of the cultural asset and its historical, aesthetic and documental value, as well as its material integrity
- The main objective of this degree is
- Conserver-restorer of easel paintings (oil paintings, panel paintings...)
- Conserver-restorer of sculptures (wood, stone...)
- Conserver-restorer of contemporary art (paintings, sculptures...)
- Conserver-restorer of mural paintings
- Conserver-restorer of archealogical materiales
- Produce technical reports
- Produce reports on the state of conservation of cultural heritage assets
- Conservation - restoration Project Management
- Preventative conservation projects
- Public Institutions / Museum Curator and Conservator
- Teaching, in your field of expertise or in plastic arts in general
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General Skills
- Capacity of analysis, synthesis, organisation and planning
- Analysis and interpretation of documentary and literary sources
- Capacity to think in images and to think about the images
- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team
- Work in an international context
- Ethical commitment
- Capacity to produce and relate ideas
- Personal motivation towards quality
- Interpret the language of artistic forms, appreciate their aesthetic values and search for information about the culture that has produced them
- Critical understanding of the nature of art
- Knowledge of heritage and of its singularities and fragility, as well as of the need to legally protect it
- Knowledge of heritage as a collective good that must be passed on to future generations
- Awareness of the responsibility of the conserver-restorer in his/her interventions on cultural assets
- Knowledge of the vocabulary of conservation-restoration, its intervention norms in coherence with its code of ethics
- Knowledge of health and safety in the workplace regulations
- Knowledge of the materials comprising the cultural assets and how they were created or produced
- Knowledge of the factors affecting the alteration and deterioration of cultural assets
- Basic knowledge of scientific methodology, research of sources, analysis and interpretation
- Knowledge of the tools and methods for examining cultural assets
- Knowledge and capacity to determine conservation-restoration treatment
- Knowledge of the spaces and means for exhibiting, storing and transporting cultural assets
- Capacity to make an interdisciplinary contribution
- Capacity to carry out preventive conservation activities, and create the best conditions for conserving objects
- Capacity to carry out conservation-restoration projects involving groups of objects
- Capacity to disseminate information relating to the examination, treatment and investigation conducted on cultural assets
- Ability to carry out consolidation and stabilisation treatment, clean and restore the volume and colour of cultural assets
- Capacity to document and examine, diagnose and treat the conservation-restoration of cultural assets
- Knowledge of anthropology to analyse, assess and intervene in socio-cultural processes
- Know philosophical problems and their influence on the different spheres of social life
- Use the conceptual and terminological outlines of the History of Art
- Knowledge of means of artistic expression: photography, colour, volume and drawing
Specific Skills
You must have:
- A basic understanding of and an interest in culture, in all its different forms and all variety of contexts
- Understand how to use the Internet as a tool to source documentation and to exchange information
- The ability to learn how to use new technologies and make use of technological advances
- The readiness to learn and use a modern language (English)
- The ability to plan work
- The ability to work as part of a team, both on interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary tasks
- Acceptance, sensitivity and curiosity when dealing with cultural diversity
- A basic understanding of and interest in art in all its forms throughout history
- Sensitivity in the field of visual arts
- An appreciation of the historic and cultural value of cultural heritage assets