Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
www.kons.dk

The School of Conservation is part of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. We are an establishment of higher education under the Ministry of Culture established in 1973.
We are working towards the following aim: To offer study programs founded on research, which in scope and quality are on a level with those offered by the international leaders in the field and which ensure that our students have the best possible academic foundation to meet the challenges they will encounter in their future work in preserving our cultural heritage in museums, archives, libraries etc.
The School of Conservation offers a three-year undergraduate program in conservation (bachelor’s degree) and a two-year master program (master’s degree).
The completed bachelor program forms the basis of the master program and qualifies the bachelor to seek admission to the master program. The bachelor program and the master program both qualify for gainful employment. We also offer a three-year postgraduate research program (PhD). Programs in conservation are offered within 5 areas: Graphic Art, Pictorial Art, Object Conservation, Monumental Art and Natural History.
At the present KONS have 40 bachelor students, 50 master students and 5 PhD students.
The professional staff of 20 full time lecturers includes the following professions: Conservator, biologist, physicist, chemist, geologist, engineer, archaeologist, art historian. All have mandatory research of between 25 and 40% of their working time. On top of that we have two full time librarians serving staff and students from one of Europe’s best conservation libraries.
Our research, which is mainly undertaken by the school's permanent teaching staff, is used in the development of the school's study program and in practical conservation-restoration outside the school. Moreover, some of our research results are used by other branches of science in the humanities, natural science, medicine and technology.
From 2000 to 2003 the School of Conservation was one of 10 partners participating in the previous mentioned CRRIC project.