MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage
About this course
MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage, covering the preservation of artworks, historic buildings, and museum collections. Core topics include fieldwork, project management, historical research, ethics and professional practice, policy analysis, and design and creative practice. The course includes a 12-week conservation placement in a museum, historic house, or private workshop. The four-year Integrated Master's structure also allows transfer from the three-year BA programme.
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Entry requirements
A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 87%
- Learning opportunities: 83%
- Assessment and feedback: 72%
- Academic support: 67%
- Organisation and management: 67%
- Learning resources: 73%
- Student voice: 51%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 10 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 20%
- Further study: 5%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 45%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 20%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 160 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 4%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 19%
- East Midlands: 33%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 21%
- London: 7%
- South East: 6%
- South West: 2%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 25 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 85%
- Access course: 5%
- Other HE qualification: 10%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Becoming a Professional
- Conservation Techniques
- Introduction to heritage materials
- Introduction to Heritage Science
- Introduction to Interventive Conservation Practice
- Introduction to Visual and Material Culture
- Visual Recording and Reporting
- Analytical Techniques in Conservation
- Applied Practical Conservation 2
- Collections Care and Management
- Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
- Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
- Aesthetics
- Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World
- Ancient Philosophy L5
- Art and Power: Projecting Authority in the Renaissance World
- Britons and Romans, 100 BC-AD 450
- Classics in Context
- Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
- Conservation placement (full time)
- Conservation placement (part time)
- Decolonising the Past
- Early Modern Family: Households in England c.1500-1750
- Environmental Philosophy
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
- From King Alfred to the Anarchy: Society, Politics and State-building in England, 871-1153
- Gender and Sexuality in Britain 1700-1950
- Industry Placement
- Literature and Life in Britain at Peace and War, 1914-1945
- Living and dying in the middle ages, 800-1400
- Making and Meaning; History through Objects
- Media, Controversy and Moral Panic
- Migration in British Art, 1933 to the Present
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
- Philosophy of Science
- Playing the Past: History and Videogames
- Queering the Past
- Study at a partner institution: Conservation
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
- The Arthurian Myth
- The British Civil Wars: Experiencing and Remembering a Revolution
- The Emperor in the Roman World
- The Global Renaissance
- The World of Late Antiquity, 150-750
- The World of the Crusades
- Thought Experiments
- Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
- Applied Practical Conservation 3.1
- Applied Practical Conservation 3.2
- Conservation exhibition
- Conservation independent study: dissertation
- Digital Heritage Tools and Techniques
- Material Culture, Collections and Significance
- Conservation in Context: Skills for Sector Readiness
- Conservation Industry Placement Term 1
- Critical Perspectives on Managing Cultural Heritage
- Digitising Cultural Heritage Collections
- Intermediate Interventive Conservation Practice
- Investigative Techniques in Heritage
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln earn?
The median salary is £24,000 after 15 months, £21,000 after 3 years, £25,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £21,500 and £31,500.
What do graduates of MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln?
87% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BCC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 112 UCAS points.
Does MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year.
How many students continue on MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage at University of Lincoln?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.