Museum Cultures (Postgraduate Diploma)
Master
In London
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
The Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Cultures offers you the opportunity to study this expanding and dynamic field in close proximity to world-distinguished museums and galleries. If you are contemplating a career in the museum and gallery sector and if you want to understand contemporary debates about museums and their cultural significance, then this is the course for you. Museums have been of enormous importance in shaping empires, nations and cities, and their collections are connected to wider histories of conflict and social change. To study museums is to study the development and fierce contestation of our collective cultural imagination and memory.
Our programme gives you the chance to develop a range of key skills, from critical thinking and writing to practical experience through a supervised work placement that you can apply for in a museum, gallery or archive. Previous opportunities have been offered at the Tate, the British Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Horniman Museum. Past students have helped design and run schools programmes, documented collections that were previously uncatalogued, conducted visitor research and assisted curators in producing exhibitions. As well as regular gallery and museum visits, we also offer an exciting study trip abroad every spring.
The Postgraduate Diploma is ideal if you are interested in studying museum cultures at postgraduate level for personal or professional reasons, but you don't yet want to commit to a full MA.
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About this course
Our students develop the ability to think critically and creatively, and to articulate their ideas persuasively. Intellectual rigor, visual sensitivity and informed debate are fundamental to museum studies, as well as being transferable skills relevant to a range of careers. Graduates can pursue jobs in arts management, conservation and policy; in education, marketing and publishing; in the museums and heritage sectors; and in research and academia.
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in a relevant subject or equivalent (for example, professional experience).
A written exercise or sample undergraduate essay is required and applicants may be interviewed.
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Subjects
- Conflict
- Politics
- Art
- International
- Global
- Public
- Project
- Writing
- Social Change
- Critical Thinking
Course programme
The programme consists of a compulsory module, a choice of option modules and a research project or work placement.
The compulsory module introduces you to contemporary debates within museum cultures and includes a research skills workshop wherein the group decides upon and collectively researches a topic, under the supervision of their tutor. Option modules offer you the opportunity to follow specific interests and areas of research.
COMPULSORY MODULE- Museum Cultures - Approaches, Issues, Skills
- Art Museums in a Global Age
- Curating as Critical Practice
- Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism
- Exhibiting the Body
- Impressionism Now
- Museums, Memory and National Identity
- Museum Cultures Work Placement
- Museums in Practice
Additional information
Part-time home students, Year 1: £4410 pa
Part-time home students, Year 2: £1470 pa
Full-time home students: £5880 pa
Part-time international students, Year 1: £8010 pa
Part-time international students, Year 2: £2670 pa
Full-time international students: £10680 pa
Museum Cultures (Postgraduate Diploma)