GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
The material remnants that bear trace of earlycultures reflect the historical development which weestablish the future on it. It is very important to conserve the work which forms the equity ofthe scientific studies against thefactors treating our cultural and historical heritage’spermanence and continuity. With reference to the fact thatTurkey is one of the countries in the world is in need ofprotection personnel/experts, the department of Conservation andRestoration of Cultural Heritage has been established. It aimsto bring up qualified members of profession and scientists whosetechnical knowledge and abilities are developed, who can contribute the country’s needs by monitoring and commenting on theactivities both in the country and the world from theoretical and technicalaspects.
In2013-2014 Instruction–Education Year, beginning of the students’admission, four-year education will be applied in this department.The instruction and education in this department will be about like ceramics,tile, stone, metal, glass, textile, paper, wood, icon, painting on-canvas,wallpainting, mosaic belonging to estate orasset archeologic and ethnographic quality.
Theconservators will be brought up on scientific observation andresearch, method developing and determination, application andevaluation of the application results. The department, in addition to theinstruction-education, with the help of protection science, by workingcollaboratively with such as archaeology, art history, fine arts,museology, architecture, mineralogy, microbiology, petrography and archeometry,different arts, social and physical sciences, it will develop diagnosisand treatment to estate or asset quality of work, building andbuilding materials aiming at the protection. With its researchand application projects, it will also play an important role inprotection of our cultural heritage, and take it as a duty.