Programmes

Institutions such as museums, corporate collections, archives and libraries are subject to constant processes of change due to social upheavals and media technological innovations. These affect the core tasks of collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating as well as management. The university course "Collection Studies and Management" provides the theoretical and practical

The programme is geared to graduates of conservation-restoration (BA of at least 7 semesters, MA, Mag.art., Dipl.-Rest.) who wish to enlarge their competences in international project work, in teaching and conveying restoration knowledge, in project and site management, and in the preservation of both cultural and world heritage. All this is based on an innovative transcultural and

Cultural heritage, as understood by Central European University's Cultural Heritage Studies Program, is the legacy of physical artifacts (cultural property) and intangible attributes of a group or society inherited from the past. Cultural Heritage is a concept which offers a bridge between the past and the future with the application of particular approaches in the present. Due to its attached