The Opificio’s Higher Education School (Italian acronym SAFS – Scuola di Alta Formazione e Studio) for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage offers multidisciplinary and comprehensive university-level training in our laboratories, where universally celebrated masterpieces of art are restored.
- Conservation and research
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- Restoration areas
- Tapestry and carpet restoration sector
- Bronze and antique weapons restoration sector
- Tapestries and carpets
- Bronze artefacts and ancient weapons
- Restoration sector Paintings on canvas and panel
- Restoration Sector Paper and Membranous Materials
- Canvas and panel paintings
- Restoration Department Paper and Membranous Materials
- Paper and parchment
- Restoration Sector Stone Materials
- Ceramic, plastic, and glass materials
- Restoration sector Textile materials
- Stone materials
- Restoration sector Mosaic and Florentine commesso
- Textiles
- Goldsmith restoration sector
- Mosaics and Florentine commesso
- Restoration Sector Wall Paintings and Stuccoes
- Goldsmithery
- Restoration sector Polychrome wooden sculptures
- Mural paintings and stucco decorations
- Polychrome wooden sculptures
- Restoration areas
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- Scientific Laboratories
- Non-invasive diagnostics
- Micro-invasive diagnostics
- Development of methodologies and materials for the conservation of cultural heritage
- Non-invasive diagnostics
- Climatology and preventive conservation
- Micro-invasive diagnostics
- Development of methods and materials for cultural heritage conservation
- Climatology and preventive conservation
- Activities
- Scientific Laboratories
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- Education and Training
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- Degree Course
- PFP 1 – Stone materials and derivatives
- PFP 2 – Painted artefacts on wooden and textile support
- PFP 3 – Textile materials and leather goods
- PFP-1 Stone materials and derivatives, decorated surfaces in architecture
- PFP 4 – Ceramic, glass, organic, metal materials and artefacts
- PFP-2 Painted artefacts on wooden and textile support
- PFP 5 – Book, archival, paper, photographic, film and digital material
- PFP-3 Textile and leather materials and artefacts
- PFP-4 Ceramic, glass, and organic materials and artefacts
- PFP-5 Book and archival material
- Degree Course
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- Museum