Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc

• Are you an advocate for the art and culture of our time, able to engage with the significant challenges of the day?
• Do you want to work closely with art and artists, responding to the changing nature of emerging artistic practice?
• Can you bring an interdisciplinary focus combining scientific and humanities-based thinking through working with contemporary art and heritage?
• Would you like to develop your skills to handle, treat and manage artworks?
• Are you able to work collaboratively to understand and address complex real-world problems?

The programme will produce contemporary art conservators ready to address the challenges of caring for the art of our time within a rapidly changing world. The degree focuses on conserving contemporary sculpture, installation, time-based art and design media works, including conceptual, performance, digital and mixed media works.

The programme’s content will reflect current debates impacting how we conserve, steward and care for contemporary art, design and media, thinking about the values and histories underpinning conservation practice and urgent challenges facing the sector more broadly. This thinking underpins a programme fundamentally grounded in hands-on training for real-world situations.