Art History and Museum Curating MA 12 months Postgraduate Programme By University of Sussex |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

24,000 GBPTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

01 Aug, 2025Application Deadline

Main Subject Area

Art HistoryMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Art History

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Learn the skills that will help you join the exciting world of museums, galleries and the cultural heritage sector.



You’ll learn from academics who have direct experience in exhibition curation and researching collections in museums and galleries. You’ll also learn from experts on site, with visits to world-renowned institutions such as the British Museum and National Gallery.



Alongside practical skills, you will gain an understanding of how the museums and gallery sector works. You'll also discover the range of jobs available in the sector.



As an Arts History and Museum Curating MA student at Sussex, you gain invaluable professional experience working with established curators. Alongide a team of fellow students, you'll address a current issue for a specific museum. This is a specially-designed live professional brief between March and July. You’ll get the opportunity to work on some of the pressing issues facing the sector today through this professional project. In previous years, museums have included projects relating to:


  • disability and access
  • Black Lives Matter
  • queer heritage
  • women’s histories.



Participating museums have included Charleston, the British Museum, Towner Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove Museums.



In class, you’ll explore the history, theory and politics of art institutions and build a critical framework for the practice of curating. There will also be frequent group visits to museums and galleries in Sussex, London and the southeast. You’ll learn firsthand from exhibition curators and our faculty about collections, curation, acquisitions and loans, institutional histories, permanent galleries, and temporary exhibitions.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Art History

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Learn the skills that will help you join the exciting world of museums, galleries and the cultural heritage sector.



You’ll learn from academics who have direct experience in exhibition curation and researching collections in museums and galleries. You’ll also learn from experts on site, with visits to world-renowned institutions such as the British Museum and National Gallery.



Alongside practical skills, you will gain an understanding of how the museums and gallery sector works. You'll also discover the range of jobs available in the sector.



As an Arts History and Museum Curating MA student at Sussex, you gain invaluable professional experience working with established curators. Alongide a team of fellow students, you'll address a current issue for a specific museum. This is a specially-designed live professional brief between March and July. You’ll get the opportunity to work on some of the pressing issues facing the sector today through this professional project. In previous years, museums have included projects relating to:


  • disability and access
  • Black Lives Matter
  • queer heritage
  • women’s histories.



Participating museums have included Charleston, the British Museum, Towner Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove Museums.



In class, you’ll explore the history, theory and politics of art institutions and build a critical framework for the practice of curating. There will also be frequent group visits to museums and galleries in Sussex, London and the southeast. You’ll learn firsthand from exhibition curators and our faculty about collections, curation, acquisitions and loans, institutional histories, permanent galleries, and temporary exhibitions.

Admission Requirements

169+
6+
59+
3+
80+

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.

01 Aug 2025
1 Year
Sep

  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

Domestic
11,650 GBP
International
24,000 GBP

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