Restoration & Conservation Techniques Course
Master restoration and conservation of 19th-century painted furniture. Gain skills in structural stabilisation, surface cleaning, inpainting, pest management, and ethical, reversible treatments to achieve museum-level results in your professional craft practice. This course equips you with practical techniques for examining, documenting, stabilising, and preserving valuable antique pieces effectively.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides hands-on skills to examine, document, stabilise, and preserve 19th-century painted furniture. You will learn safe testing methods, structural repairs, surface cleaning, paint consolidation, inpainting, pest management, humidity control, ethical guidelines, material selection, and advice for owner care, all applicable to real-world projects right away.
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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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