Courses and other educational opportunities on the ethics of heritage conservation

Courses

The ethics of cultural heritage

Free course

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/the-ethics-cultural-heritage?active-tab=description-tab

Coimbra University

Ethics of heritage

https://apps.uc.pt/courses/EN/unit/81503/16281/2025-2026

Cambridge University
MPhil in Heritage Studies

This graduate degree program includes several courses on heritage ethics

https://www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/graduates/mphil

University of Oxford

Introduction to art and cultural heritage law and ethics

https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-art-and-cultural-heritage-law-and-ethics

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Heritage, Ethics, Politics and Community Archaeology (FM0500)

https://www.unive.it/data/course/338858/programma?utm_source=chatgpt.com

University of Malta

Conservation / Built Heritage – Conservation Principles & Ethics (BLH4023)

https://www.um.edu.mt/courses/studyunit/BLH4023?

Lectures

University of Hamburg

Handle with Care: Cultural Heritage and Ethics in Manuscript Studies

Short lecture series, we want to discuss considerations behind these ethical guidelines and examples from real life research with a wide range of scholars and students of UHH.

https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/seminar11.html