This major is a new frontier discipline with the intersection of arts and sciences, the infiltration of science and engineering, the combination of modern science and technology and humanistic knowledge. It mainly trains high-level professionals who can not only master the general knowledge of mathematics, physics, history and cultural relics archaeology, but also master the skills of cultural relics material analysis and cultural relics restoration, and can engage in cultural relics protection and research in museums, archaeological research and cultural relics protection institutions.
The main courses are: Introduction to Archaeology in China, Introduction to Cultural Relics, Introduction to Natural History, Inorganic Chemistry and Experiments, Organic Chemistry and Experiments, Analytical Chemistry and Experiments, General Physics, Advanced Mathematics, Inorganic Cultural Relics Protection, Organic Cultural Relics Protection, Cultural Relics Protection Materials, Introduction to Anti-corrosion, Mould Prevention and Sterilization, Cultural Relics Restoration and Protection Experiments, Protection and Maintenance of Ancient Buildings, Modern Analytical Techniques of Cultural Relics, Cultural Relics and Environment, etc.
Employment direction: cultural relics institutions: cultural relics restoration, cultural relics protection, museum design, cultural relics management and cultural relics appraisal; Educational institutions: history teachers.
Career prospects
Graduates of this major can go to culture, cultural relics, natural history, environmental protection, construction, public security, customs, tourism and scientific research, universities and other departments to engage in education, scientific research, design, development and management.
According to the survey in National Cultural Heritage Administration, half of the more than 30 million cultural relics in the national cultural relics system have been damaged to varying degrees. However, there are only 2000 people who are really engaged in cultural relics restoration in China, and there are almost no professional cultural relics restoration personnel in many museums. Filling the talent gap of cultural relics restoration is an urgent task of cultural relics protection.
The long time-consuming and low return rate are also important reasons for the serious shortage of cultural relics restoration talents in China. In this sense, to make up for the talent gap in cultural relics restoration, we should not only push the industry from cold to hot to enter the public's field of vision, but also stop at the excitement. We also need a kind of "ten years to sharpen a sword" to cultivate patience.
In the 1960s, with the support of Wu, then president of the Palace Museum, the Cultural Relics Restoration Factory of the Palace Museum was formally established, and cultural relics restoration received due attention, making a generation of famous cultural relics restoration experts such as Zheng, Jin Zhongyu and Jin Yumin. However, in the face of the present situation of cultural relics restoration, this traditional handicraft mode is difficult to fill the huge talent gap, and it is also difficult for the inheritors of folk intangible cultural heritage to cope with millions of precious cultural relics in urgent need of restoration.