Museum Cultures with Curating (MA)

Birkbeck, University of London

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In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

Museums establish powerful narratives of progress and primitivism, knowledge and ignorance, inclusion and exclusion. Our MA Museum Cultures with Curating combines study of the history and cultural significance of museums with opportunities for professional museum experience.

This MA gives you the chance to acquire key foundational skills in curating and a solid grasp of the related issues. You will benefit from an intensive week studying current issues and practices in curating. You will meet the experts in London museums and galleries and engage in hands-on activities relating to exhibition development, object interpretation and public engagement.

You will also have the opportunity to apply for a 10-week supervised work placement in a museum, gallery or archive. Previous work placements have been offered at the Tate, British Museum, Whitechapel Gallery and Horniman Museum. Past students have documented collections that were previously uncatalogued, helped design and run schools programmes, conducted visitor research and assisted curators in producing exhibitions.

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in the heritage and museums sector, arts, media and education. Possible professions include museum/gallery registrar, curator, or arts administrator. This degree may also be useful in becoming a community arts worker, multimedia specialist, or higher education lecturer.

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above).

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Public
  • Global
  • Art
  • Interpretation
  • Exhibition
  • Workshop
  • Contemporary
  • Dissertation
  • Knowledge
  • Opportunity
  • Technologies

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

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

The module Museum Cultures: Approaches, Issues, Skills 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.

The Curating module will be delivered across a five-day period. It introduces you 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.

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.

COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Curating
  • Museum Cultures - Approaches, Issues, Skills
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • 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
WORK PLACEMENT/RESEARCH PROJECT MODULE
  • Museum Cultures Work Placement
  • Museums in Practice
MA MUSEUM CULTURES WITH CURATING DISSERTATION
  • MA Museum Cultures Dissertation

Additional information

FEES

Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Full-time home students: £8820 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa



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