Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
Take advantage of our unique position as a laboratory-based inter-disciplinary program and work with senior heritage professionals and conservators to preserve art and objects for future generations. You’ll get involved with Indigenous projects, including the Association of Northern Kimberley Arnhem Aboriginal Artists and the Warmun Art Centre, and global institutions,…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Take advantage of our unique position as a laboratory-based inter-disciplinary program and work with senior heritage professionals and conservators to preserve art and objects for future generations. You’ll get involved with Indigenous projects, including the Association of Northern Kimberley Arnhem Aboriginal Artists and the Warmun Art Centre, and global institutions, like the National Visual Art Gallery of Malaysia, Getty Conservation Institute, USA and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Victoria.
If you want to refine your professional area of practice, you can specialise in areas such as conservation, treatment of paintings, objects, works on paper and photographs within the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation. Designed for those willing to extend themselves, you have access to sophisticated scientific conservation equipment at The University of Melbourne’s Science and Engineering faculties, where you can hone your ability as a master conservationist. You can also gain professional experience through a national or international internship, where you’ll work under senior heritage professionals and conservators to carry out conservation research or a conservational treatment.
On graduation from the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation, you will be ready for work in professional fields including:
- Attribution and technical studies
- Material, treatment and scientific analysis of cultural material
- Documentation cultures to conserve new media and digital content
- The cultural record and managing change in the Asia Pacific region
- Distributed indigenous, regional and community collections.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
