LETI Holds Summer School for Future Art Restorers

International students learnt modern art restoration methods.

Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” held the international summer school Heritage Science for the first time. It gathered trainees from China, Mexico, Argentina, France, Algeria, Syria and Afghanistan. The two-week short programme covered engineering methods of research, conservation and restoration of architectural monuments, museum exhibits and artefacts, and modern physical, chemical, laser and optoelectronic techniques in Cultural Heritage preservation. The students also heard lectures on art history. Workshops were led by LETI Photonics Department teachers, St Petersburg museum specialists and Prof. Gabriel Ferrini, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. To gain insight into the conservation process, the school participants visited restoration laboratories of I.E. Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, State Russian Museum and State Museum of Urban Sculpture.

Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI” is a modern Russian university providing quality engineering education. It offers more than 140 programmes of different education levels in such fields as heat and power engineering, photonics, instrument engineering, electronics etc. See LETI programmes here.