Study Details: MA 1 year full-time; 2-3 years part-time
Engage with a wide range of issues and develop a unique mix of practice-based and theoretical learning for your professional work or further research in the museum sector.
Our Museum Studies (MA) course gives you the opportunity to focus on museums, education and interpretation, and digital heritage. You'll also study contemporary issues of inclusion, wellbeing, public benefit and decolonising collections. The course combines critical academic study in museology with practical applications, and a curated museum placement in a local museum.
The programme is enhanced by collaboration with our heritage partners, including York Museums Trust, York Archaeological Trust, Leeds Museums and Galleries, local authorities, heritage bodies, third sector and commercial organisations.
2:2 or equivalent in a Archaeology or a relevant subject such as History, History of Art, English, Geography, Anthropology, Politics or any related field.
Mature students or those with less conventional qualifications but with relevant professional experience and enthusiasm for this field will be considered. To find out if your professional experience or qualifications are appropriate, please contact the Course Director.
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You will engage with practical applications of museum practices through module assessment and a curated museum placement. You'll develop a wide range of employability skills by giving presentations, by writing management, exhibition or media plans, and working directly with local museums. Graduates have gone on to careers in archaeology and heritage-related organisations across the UK and abroad. You'll also develop transferable skills that are applicable to a multitude of careers beyond archaeology and heritage.
Career opportunities
Core modules
Contemporary Issues in Museums
Museums, Audiences and Interpretation
Curated Placement
Option modules
You will choose three option modules from examples including:
Artefacts and Materials Analysis
Digital Creativity
Heritage Principles and Concepts
Presenting Historic Houses
Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
From the Department of History
Concepts and Approaches in Public History
You'll also have the opportunity to choose options from our full module catalogue:
Ancient Biomolecules
Animal Bones for Archaeologists
Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
Becoming Human
Building Conservation Projects
Buildings Recording
Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
Data Science for Archaeology
Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
Debates in Funerary Archaeology
Digital Approaches to Archaeology
Experimental Archaeology
GIS and Spatial Analysis
Histories of Conservation
Landscape Survey and Geophysics
Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
Making the Nation
Medieval Settlement and Communities
Mesolithic Life and Death
Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
Project Management
Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
Roman Europe
Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
Sustainability I: Definitions of Sustainability & Methods of Assessment
Sustainability II: Understanding Sustainability as Change through Time
Sustainable Buildings
Sustainable Conservation Challenges
The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
The Archaeology of Roman Religion
The Viking Age
Thinking through Material Culture
Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
Zooarchaeology in Context
Some option modules combinations may not be possible. The option available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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