Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) is a new online resource that shares strategies for
teaching science in art conservation and related cultural heritage fields. An overview will be given of how
undergraduate chemistry curricula in the United States have used examples from cultural heritage. The field of
art conservation will then be described with an emphasis on the science curricula taught in art conservation
programs around the world. Challenges include relating theoretical learning to real-world applications and
teaching scientific terminology and concepts to students who may have limited science backgrounds; as well, there is a lack of textbooks and resources with appropriate case studies. The newly launched CSEO online
resource offers freely available, effective teaching methods in the form of modules developed by international
educators in the field. The inaugural CSEO Conference 2022 served as an introduction to the online resource for a
global audience and was the first dedicated conference to bring together heritage science educators to discuss
challenges and teaching strategies with the goal of building such a resource. The conference facilitated discussions
among participants about teaching strategies, with the intention that these topics would become modules
for the online resource, available to all science educators.
