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Students in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage write their MA theses during the latter half of the second year. For conservation students this is halfway through their studies to become a fully trained conservator, while students in Technical Art History, or Conservation Science, conclude their studies with the MA-thesis.

The UvA makes all MA theses available online, unless there is an embargo placed on them. You can browse the UvA MA theses repository via keywords in the search bar on UvA Scripties Online. When a particular MA thesis cannot be found or accessed, please try to enquire with the author. Note that most theses are in Dutch until 2016, as the programme switched to English in 2015. The first MA theses in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage were completed in 2008.

Withdrawing permission to publish your thesis
You can use this form to submit a request to withdraw your permission for publication. Your thesis will then be removed from this website.

Other questions / contact
For questions about theses that have not yet been published, please contact your programme / faculty; see the page Publishing your thesis. For questions about theses that have been published on this website, please contact us using this form.

Prize winners Rijksmuseum-Migelien Gerritzen Thesis Award

2025: Carolina Torres: Byonsaek: Investigating the Discolouration of a Collection of Korean Textiles from the Late Joseon Dynasty, at the Wereldmuseum Leiden

2024: Michiel Vermaat: Seeing Beyond the Surface: Investigating Methods of Visualizing Consolidants in Wood Borer-Damaged Wood.

2023: Olivia Schoenfeld: The Landscape of Blockchain-based Art Preservation: Risk Assessment of 81 Horizons by Rafaël Rozendaal

2022: Dagmar Beyaard: NIRME (Near-Infrared for Metals): Researching the Applicability of a MicroNIR for Identifying and Monitoring Protective Organic Coatings on Outdoor Bronze Sculpture

2021: Theresa Costello, Diagnostic Investigation into a Cracking Phenomenon on the Mouthpieces of Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Glass Horns

2020: Margo Terpstra, A Wave from the Past: On the formation of wave-patterned deformation of the Lakenhal Sample books

2019: Sofie Dubbeldam, An investigation into whitened paint areas on a painting by Adriaen Cornelisz Beeldemaker, Dogs in a landscape] (2019).

2018: Kirsten Derks, Blue cabbages and invisible onions: Discolouration in the oeuvre of Joachim Beuckelaer (2017).

2017: Magdalena Pilko, Electrotyping Daguerreotypes: Reconstruction of an Early Reproduction Technique (2017).

2016: Megan Kisters, Behangreconstructies in het Van Doesburg-Rinsemahuis: een synthese van fragmenten (2016).

2015: Michelle Vergeer,  ‘Schouwstukken beschouwd. Een restauratieadvies op basis van de samenhang tussen vier schouwstukken uit Paleis Huis ten Bosch’ (2015).

2014: Gert van Gerven, Wat buigen van hout inhoudt (2014).

2013: Marleen Wagenaar, Licht op lichtkunst. Documentatie en verval van ruimtevullende lichtkunst – Een onderzoek aan de hand van Wedgework III (1969) van James Turrell (2013).

2012: Martine Posthuma de Boer, De verdonkering van goudleerbehang in Nederland. Een karakterisering van de degradatieverschijselen in de zilver-en vernislagen bij twee casestudies Sint Pietershof Hoorn en Weeshuis der hervormden Schiedam (2012).