This course is all about chemistry and is not about conservation treatment procedures. It aims to give you the chemical background to better understand the chemical processes behind the processes described in the conservation literature or taught at conservation training establishments. It is therefore not aimed at any particular branch of art/object conservation but rather just at the chemistry that is common to all.
The course is divided into four parts. An “Introduction” to chemical explanations of the physical world i.e. materials of common experience, air and water. “First principles” carries this further and explains the language of chemistry. “Chemistry in action” samples the chemistry of materials that are of use in conservation. The final block, “Chemistry and the conservator”, applies the knowledge gained in the previous blocks to the world of conservation.
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