Museum Cultures (MRes)

The Master's by Research (MRes) in Museum Cultures offers students the opportunity to study this expanding and dynamic field at close proximity to the most world-distinguished museums and galleries. This programme is suitable for those who are contemplating a career in the museum and gallery sector and are interested in developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary debates about museums and their cultural significance. This programme offers a range of key skills, from critical thinking to writing an extended piece of independent research. Museums have been of enormous importance in shaping empires, nations and cities, and their collections are connected to wider histories of conflict and social change. To study museums is to study the development and fierce contestation of human’s collective cultural imagination and memory.