San Gemini Programs  2024

Courses are aimed at architects, conservators, librarians, planners, art historians, museum curators, historians, engineers, artists, and other individuals who will be involved in the planning, management, and study of cultural heritage.

Our goal is to instruct students, while performing field work that helps preserve the cultural heritage of the local area around the City of San Gemini, on the following: a) to analyze cultural objects, both in their physical and contextual aspects b) methods and tools for material restoration and conservation c) Strategies for the preservation of cultural heritage, d) Advantages and drawbacks to restoration e) Italian art, architectural, and landscape traditions.

Programs are organized around classroom courses, field research, field projects, and travel to places of cultural interest in central Italy.

Session 1
June 3 – June 28, 2024
Program A: Historic Buildings
Program B: Archaeological Ceramics
Program C: Book Binding

Intersession Preservation Tour Sunday, July 1 – July 10, 2024
Florence, Siena and Rome

Session 2
July 15 – August 9, 2024
Program D: Paper Restoration
Program E: Traditional Painting Methods