Museum Cultures with Collections Management (MA)

The MA comprises two compulsory modules, an option module, an independent research project or work placement, and a 15,000-word dissertation.

In Year 1, you take the compulsory module Museum Cultures: Approaches, Issues, Skills, choose either an option module or the compulsory module Collections Management, and undertake a research project or apply for a work placement.

In Year 2, you choose a further module (an option or Collections Management) and write your dissertation.

Option modules offer you the opportunity to follow specific interests and areas of research. The option modules listed below are a selection of those offered in past years.

If you have any queries, you can contact our admissions tutor, Dorigen Caldwell.

• Collections Management
• Museum Cultures - Approaches, Issues, Skills

• Art Museums in a Global Age
• Creating a Public. Museums and their audiences
• Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism
• Exhibiting the Body
• Slavery and its Cultural Legacies

• Museum Cultures Work Placement
• Research Project Report

• MA Museum Cultures Dissertation

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