This two-year Masters brings together skills training, research, professional practice and applied science. The programme has core common courses and courses tailored to your elected specialism in either Book and Archival Materials Conservation or Paper Conservation. You will have hands-on access to our world-class collections and be based in the Kelvin Centre for Conservation and Cultural Heritage Research, a unique professional, collections-based teaching environment with state-of-the-art scientific equipment and conservation facilities.

Why this programme

Benefit from practical training and research-led teaching, with a high level of supervision from professionals and organisations.
Focus on the specialist area of conservation for books and archival materials, or paper including photographic media.
You will have hands-on access to our own world-class Hunterian collections with curatorial expertise.
The programme is based in the Kelvin Centre for Conservation and Cultural Heritage Research, in Kelvin Hall.
We share dedicated studio/laboratory spaces with The Hunterian.
This unique professional, collections-based teaching environment enables interactions with curatorial, collections management, scientific and public engagement professionals.
You will share five courses with other Masters students within the Kelvin Centre enabling an understanding of related disciplines in a wider cultural heritage context.
You will have the opportunity to develop communication skills and collaborate with a range of students and staff.
You will develop transferable skills within the cultural heritage field e.g., technical examination, preventive conservation, ethics, decision making, professional documentation and research methodologies.
Placements will be offered at a wide range of institutions across the Scotland, the UK, and internationally.
Research dissertation projects (object-based and practical in nature) will offer an opportunity for collaborations nationally and internationally.
The city of Glasgow provides a unique location for this programme with The Hunterian, Glasgow Museums, The Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow Print Studio on your doorstep.
Further afield, the Kelvin Centre has links with the National Libraries of Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, National Museums of Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, the Bodleian and The British Library, Yale University, The Smithsonian and the Getty Foundation.
The Textile Conservation Foundation has bursary funding available for students on this programme, all those who accept places will be invited to apply.
Financial support may be available via the Anna Plowden Trust which provides grants for conservation students towards course fees.

Career prospects
A practising subject specialist conservator and/or cultural heritage researcher.

Roles within collections management, archives and arts administration.