Graduate Certificate in Heritage Materials Conservation

Turn your passion for art and heritage into a career, with this short qualification in conserving heritage materials.

Gain the skills required to propel your career in the cultural heritage and museum sector. Explore how to identify materials and how they're made and begin the journey of learning how to conserve them as collections in museums and galleries, or as part of built heritage sites.

Through practical field-based workshops and behind-the-scenes tours of heritage sites and collections, you will learn to investigate the condition and significance of heritage items. You'll develop conservation and management plans for materials, and carry out laboratory and on-site treatment techniques to preserve and restore them.

Have a particular passion or interest in a subsection of history or culture? The flexibility to develop your personal vision as a professional is intrinsic to the course, with specialist mentors available for key areas.

All units within this course contain Indigenous cultural content as a key underpinning to theory.

• apply values-based methodologies to identify the stakeholders and values that must be taken into account in conservation planning
• use observation and analysis to accurately identify heritage materials, their condition, and their responses to environmental conditions
• integrate physical data and cultural understandings to develop sustainable conservation treatment and management plans for heritage
• determine and apply appropriate preservation, conservation and restoration techniques to conserve and enhance heritage materials.

• conservator
• head of heritage
• heritage consultant
• curator
• gallery manager
• indigenous heritage officer
• collections manager
• heritage manager
• engineering heritage consultant
• historic buildings conservation officer
• culture and heritage officer
• heritage site manager
• heritage and cultural policy adviser