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STUDIES PROGRAM

	Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO) Haute école de Conservation-restauration Arc (HECR Arc), La Chaux-de-Fonds	Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI) Dipartimento Ambiente Costruzioni e Design (DACD), Lugano


	The HECR Arc offers a specialized Master’s program in conservation of archaeological, ethnographic, technical, scientific and horological artefacts. These areas of specialization reflect the rich historical and regional heritage of Western Switzerland. Today, the technical university is known on an international level for its degrees in conservation of ethnographic and technical heritage. The foundation of all knowledge transfer is interdisciplinarity. This is made possible by the presence of a group of specialists in the field of conservation, conservation science, archaeology, ethnography, art history etc. which are all are actively involved in the profession (museology, preventive conservation, conservation, research). More info	The SUPSI-DACD Master’s program is focused on wall paintings, stone, stucco and architectural surfaces (plasters, sgraffiti, polychrome and gilded surfaces, stone like materials). Resolutely interdisciplinary in its approach, the course draws on a pool of qualified conservators -restorers, architects, art historians, chemists and geologists working within the same structure. Staff members linked to the conservation-restoration unit of the Laboratorio Tecnico Sperimentale (LTS), part of SUPSI-DACD, are responsible for developing research projects in the field of conservation-restoration. LTS provides well-equipped facilities for conducting tests on the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of materials. Through this intensive contact, students are able to follow all the analytical and diagnostic phases of monitoring and laboratory analyses of constituent materials and to profit from these observations to develop a conservation proposal. More info
	Berner Fachhochschule (BFH) - Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg	Berner Fachhochschule (BFH) - Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Bern


	The Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg offers a specialized Master’s program in textile conservation-restoration. The Abegg-Stiftung is a research institute and museum with a large textile collection. Two display sections, the galleries and the Villa Abegg, an annual exhibition as well as the Abegg-Stiftung’s own textile collection require permanent care and a variety of activities in the fields of preventive conservation, conservation and conservation-restoration. Besides, the Abegg-Stiftung undertakes conservation work for external institutions or supports their efforts in textile conservation – preventive and interventive – as a consultant or by assisting them. All these working areas offer the students a wide variety of activities in preventive conservation and textile conservation and an insight into different fields of the profession. Work in the textile conservation workshop is mostly linked to applied research projects in conservation or textile technology and history. Therefore applied research is well integrated into the training. More info	HKB offers a specialized Master’s program in four conservation-restoration disciplines. The teaching team includes highly specialized professionals and researchers in the different fields. Courses are focused to the latest results of conservation-restoration research and conservation-restoration projects for the workshops are selected to focus on the development of new conservation-restoration techniques as well as new examination- and documentation-methods. More info download detailed studies program: detailed-studies-program [.pdf]