Each student is required to undertake a minimum of eight weeks vacation placement as part of the course, although most students do more than this. Vacation placements allow you to gain experience of working in a conservation laboratory. They expose you to new classes of material and different approaches to conservation treatment and recording. They also allow you to meet other conservators and form contacts which may be useful when seeking work after graduation.
Placements usually occur in the two summer vacations and run for four weeks each time.
The conservation Section takes responsibility for finding placements for students although we have no objection to students arranging their own placements if they have particular interests or wish to work outside the UK, provided they satisfy staff that the placement will be properly supervised.