Protection of Cultural Heritage

MUSEUM SPECIALIST

Participants will get a set of useful tools for museum work, the latest theories, practices and trends in each area, as well as the opportunity to get in contact with professionals from the specific fields of museology. The acquired competences concern:

• knowledge of the legal framework concerning museum heritage;
• management, development and administration of collections;
• evaluation and classification of cultural assets;
• museum research work;
• documentation and analysis of museum collection;
• heritage protection and exploitation.
  

CLASIFICATION OF CULTURAL GOODS

The course aims at providing the participants with the abilities necessary to the proper completion of a database, the application of procedures concerning heritage collections.

During the course, the participants work in the database programme DOCPAT and the focus is on:

• the application of adequate procedures of administration of files concerning cultural goods using the DOCPAT database;
• the proper use of the thesaurus of terms specific to the DOCPAT database;
• selection of information found in the fields of the DOCPAT database;
• scanning and processing of photographs taken during the process of the national movable cultural heritage administration.

MUSEUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES

The course aims at providing the participants with the competences necessary to coordinate the museum educational activities for different categories of public, developing the capacities of educators in museums. The programme focuses on:

• the role of the educational activity in the museum;
• the role of the educator/animator in the museum;
• development of the museum's educational policy;
• use of collections and artefacts in the educational context.

CULTURAL GOODS CONSERVATOR (high-school diploma) and HISTORICAL MONUMENTS CONSERVATOR (university degree)

The programmes are designed for the persons in charge with cultural heritage conservation. The programmes aim to make the trainees familiar with cultural heritage conservation rules, degradation factors, their effects and causes in the case of paper and book, painting, textiles, wood. Participants have the possibility to become familiar with the way a contemporary museum functions, with the communication and cooperation relationships between conservators and other departments of the museum. Graduates must produce evidence of the following capacities:

• to apply adequate preventive measures;
• to use the chemistry notions necessary to understand and prevent any forms of material degradation;
• to collaborate with the other departments of the museum.

CULTURAL GOODS RESTORER

The programme alternates theoretical and practical preparation, in restoration laboratories and aims at providing the participants with the knowledge necessary for preventive conservation, chemical substances used in restoration processes and for the restoration technologies.

The restorer certificate is obtained after an evaluation process at the end of the training period, during which the participants will test their abilities in:

• the proper use of chemical substances and materials used in the restoration processes;
• the application of restoration technologies of objects made of metals, pottery, porcelain, stone, wood, textiles, painting and graphics, paper and book connectors.