Museum Study Programs

Detailed profiles of schools for Museum Study from the EdRef college search portal.

Museum Study programs give students the opportunity to learn both the theoretical and the practical elements of museum work. Students get exposed to a wide range of museum courses and then choose one particular area of specialization. These include anthropology, archaeology, art, art history, botany, geology, history, living collections, and zoology. Graduates from these programs can go on to work areas such as administration, conservation, curation, collection management, education, exhibition, registration, and security.

Graduate work in museology can include hands-on experience in such areas as collections management, collections research, materials packaging, collections inventories, storage renovation, preventive conservation, zoological specimen preparation, exhibit design, educational programming, and fund raising. Study includes aspects of the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and technology and is truly interdisciplinary. Students learn to study single objects while also placing those objects in wider physical and ideological contexts.