Chaque année, l’Inp accueille une vingtaine d’élèves restaurateurs. La formation vise à doter, en 5 ans, des professionnels d'un très haut niveau de compétence et capables de mener de bout en bout, et de documenter de manière exhaustive, une intervention complexe de restauration, de l'étude préalable à la réalisation, dans le respect d'une déontologie exigeante. Elle les prépare aussi aux adaptations nécessaires que la vie professionnelle leur imposera.

COURSES The studies are full-time and take place from September to mid-July. The training alternates between common core instruction for all students and specific teaching on each of the seven specialties.  The conservators-restorers training programme includes two long-term internships  in a professional environment and restoration field-schools. All sets of teachings are compulsory. Throughout the training, hours dedicated to specific teaching increase while common core instruction decreases. The training becomes more and more specialized and professionally oriented. The number of hours totaled - comprising theoretical, scientific, artistic, technical and practical training, internships and restoration field-schools including research carried out with a view to defending a thesis paper in conservation-restoration - amounts to 5,293 hours. Download student guide in French (PDF) THE WORKSHOPS Training provided in the 7 specialized workshops and practical art workshops is coordinated by professionals in conservation-restoration, teachers within the establishment and invited participants. These workshops are essential to the student training programme and highlight the cultural wealth of the conservation-restoration department. The department regularly receives works and objects entrusted to it by French public institutions on which the students mentored by their instructors, learn the skills of their future profession.

SPECIALIZATION From the first year, instruction on conservation-restoration techniques is put in place in each specialty workshop. Firstly through observation exercises and description (condition report) and then, interpretation (synthesis). Manipulation, familiarization with tools and products, techniques specific to conservation-restoration are taught also. SPECIALITIES Earthenware and glassware : (metal, ceramic, enamel, glass) : art objects, archaeological objects, scientific and technical objects…; Graphic arts and books : any paper-based material, from drawings to paper screens, but also books ; Textile arts : costumes, upholstered furniture and interiors, archaeological textiles, flags and banners…; Furniture : furnishing materials, marquetry, decorative wooden objects, technical or ethnographic ; Painting : (easel, mural) across all techniques, on any surface ; Photography : positive and negative, from the earliest processes to the more contemporary ; Sculpture : stone, wood, plaster, terracotta, decorative or non-decorative and contemporary creation materials

VOLUME OF HOURS AND ECTS CREDITS

The ECTS system (European Credit Transfer System) facilitates the academic recognition of periods of study carried out abroad and qualifications obtained from the different nations within the European Union. The ECTS credits are a numerical value allocated to each course unit. They reflect the quantity of work a course unit requires in relation to the total quantity of work necessary to complete a full year of academic study at a given institution.

Les stages et chantiers-école

To consolidate the knowledge acquired, to put this knowledge and expertise into practice, and to be in a pre-professional actual work situation, students in conservation-restoration take part in two internships throughout their studies : one 12-week professional internship in 3^rd year and one 24- week internship abroad in 4^th year.    In addition, students in conservation-restoration take part in restoration field-schools on preventive conservation during their 1^st year and other field-schools throughout their studies in France and abroad.

A large variety of locations and themes is proposed. From the treasures of Beauvais  Cathedral to the Delphi Museum in Greece, students have the opportunity to practice the management approach to conservation of collections, conduct a study of polychrome elements, carry out conservation measures, etc.