Gain the skills required to propel student's 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, they will learn to investigate the condition and significance of heritage items. They’ll develop conservation and management plans for materials, and carry out laboratory and on-site treatment techniques to preserve and restore them. All units within this course contain Indigenous cultural content as a key underpinning to theory. 

Study a Graduate Certificate in Heritage Materials Conservation at UC and they will:

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.