About the Institute of Conservation

The Institute of Conservation has been incorporated into the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation new academic structure, which consists of six institutes. Rikke Bjarnhoff the Director of Royal Danish Academy – Conservation now assumes a dual role as head of subject and head of institute and participates in the management of Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation in both capacities. 

The purpose of the new academic structure was to take a look across the schools and strengthen the interdisciplinary environments. For example, this has resulted in the creation of a new joint institute for Royal Danish Academy – Architecture and Royal Danish Academy – Design. By contrast, Royal Danish Academy – Conservation had a particular scale of organisation and a specialised subject area, so it was not expedient to divide it into several institutes. Moreover, the curricular structure of Royal Danish Academy – Conservation was already organised into courses, which resemble the new academic programmes, which the six other institutes initiated on 1 September 2014. So the new institute has not undergone a major transformation in the transition to the new joint academic structure.

You can read more about Royal Danish Academy – Conservation academic programmes and research below.