Next Series of Hornemann Institute's Online Courses Runs from 28 April - 22 June 2025

The Hornemann Institute's next series of online courses runs from 28 April to 22 June.

28 April - 22 June 2025 | Online

Registration is possible from 15 January. The Hornemann Institute of the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen is offering the following internet-based learning courses in the summer semester:

- Mould and written material
- Damage to cultural assets caused by salts
- Church interiors and their climate. Heating, ventilating, protecting furnishings
- Safe handling of contaminated cultural property
- Microbial infestation of art and cultural artefacts
- Consolidation of wood. Possibilities and limits of structural consolidation
- Basics of wood science. Properties - use - damage - examination methods explained using the example of oak wood
- Analyses of transparent coatings on furniture and wooden objects
- Photography as a tool for documentation and examination
- How should we act? Theory and ethics of restoration and their significance for practice: Renaissance and Baroque periods
- Restoration theories and methods from 1945 to the present day
- Saccharide binders and adhesives
- Conservation of wax moulages
- Conservation of globes


Registration period: 15 January to 9 April
You can find our English online courses on our English website.
Contact: Dr Angela Weyer, Hornemann Institute of the HAWK