MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies
12 months full-time, 24 months part-time
Programme Manager
The MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the issues surrounding curatorship, museology, and museum management. Modules consider the ways in which material culture has been represented and interpreted by historians and cultural theorists, the methodologies behind museum practice, the formation of country house collections, and methods of display and interpretation. There is also the opportunity to choose an option from the extensive array of modules offered by all of the MA programmes in the School. This allows students to specialise in their own areas of interest and do further work on many periods and themes in art history and cultural theory.
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, 'hands on' experience of specific collections, and a supervised negotiated work placement. As a part of the degree students are encouraged to build a portfolio of project work to support future job applications. The programme has close links with a number of important institutions both in the city and the region. Course tutors include professional curators and educationalists. Previous students have completed placements at a wide variety of museums, art galleries and heritage organisations including Leeds City Art Gallery, Harewood House, the Henry Moore Institute, the National Media Museum, the National Railway Museum, York City Art Gallery, Impressions Gallery, Fairfax House, Lotherton Hall, Abbey House Museum and the Royal Armouries.
This degree is offered on a full time or part-time basis. Full time study takes place over one calendar year. Course modules are taken on two days per week during the first two semesters. The third semester is devoted to work on the MA dissertation. Part-time study takes place over two calendar years, with students attending on one day per week each year. Research on the dissertation is spread over the two summer semesters.
The part-time MA may be of special interest to those who are working in related fields as part of their career development. Previous graduates have gone onto jobs in both the public and private sectors, as curators and education staff in local authority museums, for national heritage organisations and in arts marketing and public relations. For example, graduates now work at Harewood House, Leeds, at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle, for the Arts Council England, for the National Trust and for the New Orleans Museum of Art. A number have also returned as research students.
Entry Requirements
Enquiries are invited from students who already hold an upper second or first class degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant subject area.
Enquiries
Please make your enquiries and order a prospectus using our online enquiry form.
Careers
The Cultural Heritage National Training Organisation provides information about Careers in Museums, Heritage and Conservation
Henry Moore Internships
The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies offers funded internships at the Henry Moore Institute to students who are enrolled in the MA History of Art or the MA in Gallery and Museum Studies and who are focusing on the study of sculpture.
All enquiries and applications should be directed to the School Postgraduate Secretary on 0113-343-5274 or by email: finpg@leeds.ac.uk. Further informatïon about the internships can be obtained here.
Closing date for applications for the internships is 1st March 2008