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Dual Master
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Curating Art and Cultures (Heritage Studies)

Curating Art and Cultures is a unique, two-year Dual Master's programme designed to train the curators, (museum) researchers and academics of the future. The programme encourages you to deepen the disciplinary knowledge you have gained during your Bachelor’s and to develop your research skills. In the process, you will engage with crucial theoretical concepts and contemporary issues regarding objects and cultural artifacts, and their collection and display and put these into practice in an academic or museum context.

Language of instruction
English
Mode
Full-time

📌 Long and intensive internship

Feb10
Master's Week 10 -14 Feb
Nov15
Master's Week: 15-21 Nov
Visit an open day or event
Why Curating Art and Cultures at the UvA?

Hands-on, extended internship

The programme offers you the unique opportunity to train curatorial and research skills and gain experience through an internship at a major institution.

Strong connections with the professional field 

The programme has strong connections with the international field of art history and the museum world, to which your research, writing and curatorial practice make a direct contribution.

In the heart of vibrant cultural hub Amsterdam

The city of Amsterdam with its rich history, leading museums, and cultural institutions, is an ideal base to start building your professional network.

Offered jointly by leading research universities and museums

Offered jointly by the UvA and VU Amsterdam in collaboration with leading Dutch museums, including Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Van Abbe Museum.

Is Curating Art and Cultures right for you?

  1. You are interested in combining rigorous academic reflection with curatorial practice.
  2. You are interested in conducting research independently, collect material, apply theory, present research results and produce excellent written work.
  3. You are ambitious, driven, passionate about art, a team-player, and willing to reach a conversational level of Dutch to enhance integration during your internship.
  4. You are interested in demonstrating the relevance of the arts of the past for the generations of the future (for Arts of the Netherlands candidates).
What does this programme entail?

In this video the teacher and students of the programme explain how this programme is structured and what the unique aspects are.

Degree certificate

The Dual Master’s in Curating Art and Cultures is a programme of the accredited degree programme Heritage Studies. After successful completion of this programme, you will receive a legally accredited Master’s degree in Heritage Studies and the title Master of Arts (MA).

Facts & Figures
Degree programme
MA Heritage Studies
Type
Regular study programme
Mode
Full-time
Credits
120 ECTS, 24 months
Language of instruction
English
Starts in
September
RIO code
60836
Location
University Quarter