Museum Cultures

School of Arts - Birkbeck University of London

Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

This Masters degree offers students a unique opportunity to study the history, and operations of museums in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. We will investigate the cultural significance of museums, their histories and contemporary issues. Students will acquire and refine skills in archival and historical research, verbal and written communication, and can opt to take a work placement in one of our prestigious partnership museums.

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London
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46 Gordon Square, Room 212, WC1H 0PD

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Course programme

MA Museum Cultures

Full-Time Programme

Why Museums?

Museums are far more than storehouses of treasures or curiosities since they both represent and construct culture. Museums have been of enormous importance in shaping empires, nations, and cities, and their collections remain inextricable from histories of conflict, colonialism and trauma. Museums establish powerful narratives of progress and primitivism, knowledge and ignorance, inclusion and exclusion. To study museums is to study the development and fierce contestation of our collective cultural imagination and memory.

Core Course:

This module introduces students to contemporary debates within museum cultures. A linked seminar series will allow students to develop research skills appropriate to the museum sector and its academic study.

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