CURATING AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT (POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Years
The Postgraduate Certificate in Curating and Collections Management offers you a unique opportunity to gain practical skills in museum work and to better understand the issues facing curators and collections managers today. It will help you answer important questions such as:
How do you pitch a proposal for an exhibition?
How would you project manage this and who would need to be involved?
How would you organise a loan for an exhibition?
What are the different ways of cataloguing a museum object and why does the information you keep matter?
How would you store a sacred object, or something that was extremely fragile?
You will spend two intensive weeks (one per year) studying the foundational principles of curating and collections management, debating the challenges and opportunities of contemporary museums and gallery practice, and visiting London museums and galleries. You will listen to experts talking about their working practices, learn skills of documentation and work in groups to develop an exhibition.
This Postgraduate Certificate is suitable if you have a first degree and are interested in a vocational qualification, or as a refresher course if you are already working in a museum and gallery.
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About this course
Birkbeck graduates in history of art and museum studies have gone on to work in all fields of museum and gallery practice.
Our recent graduates have found employment in the Jewish Museum, Geffrye Museum, English National Opera and Bishopsgate Institute as educators, curators and archivists. Some have also gone on to academic research and are now studying for a PhD, while others have taken advantage of the transferable skills they have acquired to work in the media and charitable sectors.
Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification.
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Subjects
- Exhibition
- Management
- Collections Management
- Collections
- Curating
Course programme
The course consists of two 30-credit core modules, which can be taken in any order. Each module meets for one week every other year.
In Collections Management you are introduced to core principles, including acquisition, registration, cataloguing, basic object care, storage and access. Classroom learning will take place each morning, followed in the afternoon by visits to a range of museum and gallery collections across London.
In Curating you are introduced to a range of practical curatorial skills and areas of knowledge, and to some of the core principles of museum curation, including exhibition development, object interpretation, public engagement and the use of digital technologies.
You will have the opportunity to meet a range of professionals, and to critically reflect upon some of the key challenges facing the sector today.
CORE MODULES- Collections Management
- Curating
Additional information
Part-time home students: £2940 pa
Part-time international students: £5340 pa
CURATING AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT (POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE)