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MA - Master of Arts
Knights Park
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MA - Master of Arts
Knights Park
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
MA - Master of Arts
Knights Park
Full Time
SEP-25
2 years
MA - Master of Arts
Knights Park
Part Time
SEP-25
2 years
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Why choose this course?
Work alongside professionals in museums and galleries within our dynamic, critically-informed programme to enhance your curatorial portfolio. Our students explore contemporary issues and practices through experience of collections, institutions, exhibitions and audiences. Students access our annual awards in Community Engagement and Outstanding Creative Practice. Bespoke research projects empower everyone to pursue individual interests at the cutting-edge of creative practice in this vibrant and rewarding area of study.
What you will study
The course examines contemporary issues and practices, including those relating to collections management, interpretation, audiences and exhibition. You will study taught modules covering critical analysis and creative practice, and conduct research around the broad themes and subjects addressed by each module. As well as working with our own in-house museums, Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum, we work with four external institutions each year to develop real-world museum projects.
Teaching and assessment
You will be taught and assessed through essays, project work, portfolio, and a dissertation (12,000–15,000 words) or creative project (5,000 words and a piece of critically-informed creative practice).
After you graduate
Our graduates work in museums and galleries in London and across the world, including Tate Gallery, British Museum, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Saudi Art Council and National Folk Museum of Korea. Students have also progressed onto PhD studies at University College London, Sheffield Hallam University and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Applicants should have a 2:2 or above honours degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area, which may include: a humanities subject, such as art history design history, English literature, film and media studies, cultural studies, philosophy; a social sciences subject, such as geography, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, history or education; a practice-based degree in an area such as fine art, design or architecture; or a business- or management-related course.
Students living in
Domestic
£12,900 per year
Students from Domestic
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£21,900 per year
Students from EU
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£21,900 per year
Students from International
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