Training programs

The training period for students in the discipline of restoration amounts to five years. It covers seven specialties: earthenware and glassware, graphic arts and books, textile arts, furnishings, painting, photography, sculpture.

This training programme alternates core curriculum teachings, specific teachings to each specialty and two long periods of internship in a professional setting. Students also take part in school-building sites of preventive preservation and restoration.

School attendance turns on disciplines such as history of art, history of restoration, deontology of restoration, preventive preservation, cultural heritage law, physics, chemistry, biology, applied sciences to the materials of the cultural heritage, practice of restoration and artistic teachings (drawing, modelling...).

The last year of training is devoted to a work of research and restoration in the chosen specialty. This assignment leads to the writing of a dissertation.

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There has also been a move to diversify and develop the teaching of Art History and History of Conservation, consolidate Preventive Conservation, extend research and encourage increased collaboration between student-curators and student-restorers.

In addition, the Department of restorers of Inp collaborates regularly with the University of Paris I (MA Conservation and Restoration of Heritage Resources and Preventive Conservation) and with a number of overseas institutes.

Recognized as a master's degree, the diploma of restorer working for the cultural heritage bestows the accreditation to work on public collections of museums in France.