Restoration & Conservation Techniques Course
Gain expertise in restoring and conserving 19th-century painted furniture. Master structural stabilisation, surface cleaning, inpainting, pest management, and ethical reversible treatments to achieve museum-quality results in your craft practice. This course equips you with practical skills for professional projects, including safe testing, material selection, and owner care advice.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides hands-on skills to assess, document, stabilise and preserve 19th-century painted furniture. You will learn safe testing methods, structural repairs, surface cleaning, paint consolidation, inpainting techniques, pest management strategies, humidity control, ethical guidelines, material choices and practical advice for owners to apply in real-world conservation efforts.
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Develop skills
- Professional condition reporting: inspect, map damage and document treatments clearly.
- Safe cleaning and inpainting: test, consolidate and retouch painted furniture.
- Structural stabilisation: repair cracks, joints and warping with reversible methods.
- Integrated pest management: identify, treat and prevent woodworm in antique pieces.
- Ethical conservation planning: choose compatible materials and guide owners’ care.
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