BScScienze e tecnologie per i beni culturali
Italy, Venice
| Study location | Italy, Mestre |
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| Type | Bachelor's degree, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 3 years (180 ECTS) |
| Study language | Italian |
| Awards | BSc |
| Course code | CT60/GGG/2020 |
| Tuition fee | €2,100 per year |
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| Application fee | €30 one-time This non-refundable fee allows you to apply for admission to a maximum of two programmes of study. |
| Entry qualification | High school / secondary education (or higher) Students must have attended school for at least 12 years in order to be eligible to enrol in a bachelor’s degree offered by an Italian university. READ MORE ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF YOUR APPLICATION The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. If your documents are not in English or Italian, please upload the original documentation or a verified copy of it AS WELL AS a professional translation in English or Italian. You can obtain professional translations either in your country or in Italy, and they can be issued by professional translators, a local court of law or court interpreters. |
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| Language requirements | English Italian ITALIAN You can apply to this programme even if you have yet to obtain a language certification, but in order to complete your enrolment you will need to provide one or take a preliminary Italian language test organised either on Skype or on campus before the academic year begins. You are exempted from needing to provide evidence of your proficiency in Italian if:
Chinese Marco Polo students can provide a language certification indicating either a B1- or a B2-level knowledge of Italian. Chinese Marco Polo students enrolling with a certified B1-level knowledge of Italian must achieve a certified B2-level knowledge of the language by the end of the first year of their studies. |
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| Other requirements | This is an open admission programme without an entry test. However, you must possess a reasonable knowledge of mathematics, logic, and reading comprehension skills, which can be assessed via an online written test called the TOLC-I, which can be taken in English or in Italian. The test is offered by the test provider CISIA. You can register yourself to take the test on CISIA’s website and will need to choose one of the dates on which the TOLC-I in your preferred language is offered and pay a test fee of 35 euro. You are strongly encouraged to register for and take the TOLC-I before you begin their studies. If you do not sit the test before enrolment OR you obtain a score lower than 15 out of 41 (considering only 10% of the score obtained in the Sciences section and excluding the English section), you will be assigned an Additional Learning Requirement, or ALR, in mathematics and logic (Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo – OFA). The ALR must be satisfied by the end of your first year of study (deadline of October 1) by passing an exam, or else you will not be permitted to register for any of the course exams included in your study plan. |
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Overview
Do you want to become an expert in the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage?
This programme prepares you for this by teaching you how to carry out technical and scientific investigations in order to understand what causes the deterioration of artistic, architectural and archaeological artefacts, to identify the appropriate restoration methodologies and to draw up conservation plans.
During the first year, you acquire core competencies in chemistry, physics, mathematics and the history of art; in the second year, you participate in analytical and physical chemistry labs to master dexterity and gain hands-on experience by participating in restoration workshops, which continue in the third year.
Explore this programme’s study plan (Study > Study plan > Enrolled in the 2024/2025 academic year)
Programme structure
This programme includes the following components:
- course work
- curricular internship
- final thesis
You can request to spend one or two semesters at a partner university through Ca’ Foscari’s exchange programmes.
Your curricular internship can be carried out either in Italy or abroad.
Career opportunities
Graduates can find employment as experts in the diagnostics and conservation of cultural heritage at institutions specialising in cultural heritage management and conservation, as well as local agencies, companies and organisations operating in these fields.
Career opportunities can be found in the following contexts:
- Museums and galleries
- Libraries and archives
- Art conservation and restoration
- Arts administration
- Heritage management