Graduate Certificate in Heritage Materials Conservation

Conserve cultural heritage with this hands-on degree

Turn your passion for art and heritage into a career with this short qualification in conserving heritage materials.

Gain the skills required to propel your career in the cultural heritage and museum sector. Explore how to identify materials and how they’re made, and begin the journey of learning how to conserve them as collections in museums and galleries or as part of built heritage sites.

Through practical field-based workshops and behind-the-scenes tours of heritage sites and collections, you will learn to investigate the condition and significance of heritage items. You’ll develop conservation and management plans for materials and carry out laboratory and on-site treatment techniques to preserve and restore them.

Do you have a particular passion or interest in a subsection of history or culture? The flexibility to develop your personal vision as a professional is intrinsic to the course, with specialist mentors available for key areas.

All units within this course contain Indigenous cultural content as a key underpinning to theory.

Applicants must have an undergraduate degree (AQF level 7) or equivalent as approved by the University Admissions.

The following Defence members are eligible for direct entry into this course through the Veteran Tertiary Support Program - Postgraduate Course Entry:

- Commissioned Officer (any rank),
- Chaplain or Maritime Spiritual Wellbeing Officer,
- Senior Non-Commissioned Defence Force Members (E-6 or higher),
- Defence Force Members - Other Ranks (E-2 to E-5) with three or more years¿ experience.

An IELTS Academic score of 6.5 overall, with no band score below 6.0 (or equivalent).

Career opportunities

Study for less with Commonwealth Support Places (CSP)

A course with Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) means the Australian Government has subsidised a portion of your degree, reducing the total balance you are required to pay (known as the student contribution amount).
The CSP amount is determined by the course you are undertaking and the industry you'll be working in after graduation.
For more information on CSP, click here.