The diploma work submitted by conservators of cultural heritage focus on objects or artworks belonging to public collections from which students build a problematic situation of conservation-restoration supported by a technico-scientific study. In order to carry out restoration work on these objects, the students must take into account the context of the object and its material history, its state of conservation and alteration phenomena, its heritage value.

Dissertations database : an exclusive research tool

This database gives access to all dissertation specialties : earthenware, graphic arts and books, textile arts, furniture, painting, photography, sculpture. It proposes research papers via title, author, specialty or year. Each document begins with a complete descriptive sheet including a photo of the work concerned, an abstract in French and in English and an index. Dissertations can be downloaded in PDF format.

The database is accessible to students, institutes of higher education, laboratories, research centres, museums, conservators-restorers, etc…

Request your personal password by contacting documentation.oeuvres@inp.fr .  Justify your demand and indicate your professional skills  and professional contact address.

Direct link : plateforme-pedagogique.inp.fr/course/view.php?id=256

Should access to the database be protected by a password for legal reasons, you will still be able to consult the list and abstracts of all of the dissertations on the digital media library internet site.

A printed version of the dissertations is also available at the library within the department of conservators in Aubervilliers, viewed by appointment.