Inorganic Materials

9 ECTS / Semestral / English, Portuguese

Conservation and Restoration of Mural Painting Objectives

a) Knowledge of the various techniques of mural painting and identification of its constituent materials.
b) Learning the Methodology of Analysis of a Mural to define its state of conservation (with preparation of a form on the work to be intervened). 
c) Knowleedge of the various intervention techniques, equipment, and products. 
d) Depending on the analysis previously made, define an intervention programme and put it into practice. 
e) Preparation of a final report of the intervention. 

Conservation and Restoration of Photography Objectives
a) Acquire knowledge about the material composition of the main photograpic process; 
b) Learn to recognize the main deteriorations associated with each type of photographic species studied; 
c) Understand the specifics of preservation in large-scale photographic collections (archival context); 
d) Develop conservation and restoration actions in different typologies of photographic materials (metal, glass, plastic and paper based materials).