Courses
The
Introductory Course to Mediterranean Cultural Heritage
The Malta Centre for Restoration, has designed and launched a short course on conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. The course aims to give a general overview of the interdisciplinary subjects within the theme of conservation and restoration.
The course was targeted for:- Students/trainees willing to pursue a career in conservation and restoration, at an academic or at a vocational level
- Students (ranging from high school, vocational or post graduate level of education) interested in obtaining a scholarship to pursue further studies of conservation and restoration at a degree level at the Malta Centre for Restoration
- Members of the general public interested in the topic of conservation of cultural heritage
The course was based on two aspects:
- The theoretical aspect
- The practical aspect
- Archaeology for conservation
- History of Art
- Architecture for conservation
- Conservation Science
- Documentation Techniques
- Line Drawing for Conservation
- Artistic Techniques in the conservation of cultural heritage used in:
- Paper Integration
- Painting Integration
- Textile Integration
- Ceramics integration
Four courses have been transmitted so far using Satellite Enabled videoconferencing, and using the website as an additional resource complementing the lessons transmitted.
The course duration was set over a 14-week period for the Spring sessions of 2003 and 2004. Sessions were held once weekly on Saturdays. The partner countries following the courses were Greece, Morocco, Jordan and Algeria. The summer sessions in 2003 and 2004 were held over an intensive 3-week period with lessons being transmitted every day for 8 hours per day.
At the end of the courses the participants had the option of sitting for an end of course exam, which was one of the requirements for the eligibility of the degree programme scholarship at the Malta Centre for Restoration.
Exams were also held via satellite-enabled videoconferencing, where students from the partner countries were synchronously sitting for their exams in all the subjects covered within each course.