MA Museum Studies

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants should also have gained experience of working in museums or related organisations (this experience is often gained in a voluntary capacity).

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Upon completing this degree, you will have skills well suited for jobs in sectors such as tourism and heritage management, collections management and visitor/community engagement work within HE, museums, and private companies, environmental and sustainability sector, journalism, civil service.

Compulsory modules

• Collections Management and Care
• Dissertation
• The Museum: Critical Perspectives
• Managing Museums
• Museum Communication and Audience Engagement
• Museum Studies Placement
• Collections Curatorship
• Heritage Ethics and Archaeological Practice in the Middle East and Mediterranean
• Exhibition Project
• Oral History: Creation to Curation
• Antiquities and the Law

Optional modules

• Collections Curatorship
• Heritage Ethics and Archaeological Practice in the Middle East and Mediterranean
• Exhibition Project
• Oral History: Creation to Curation
• Antiquities and the Law
• Prof Theano Moussouri
• the British Museum
• Royal Botanical Gardens Kew
• Royal Historic Palaces
• Royal Academy
• Museum of London
• St Paul’s Cathedral
• RAF Museums.