How broad is the AGMS curriculum?
The AGMS MA syllabus is both broad and flexible, enabling students to explore a range of topics and issues in museum practice, theory and history, including: collections, exhibitions, education, interpretation, material culture studies, visitor studies, concepts of the museum’s public, new technology, ethics, policy, architecture and artist’s practice. Two core courses in semester one (‘The Museum and its Contexts’ and ‘Museums, Museology and Museographies’) introduce students to key concepts in museum studies and provide a foundation for the choice of two specialist options courses in semester two. Museum studies is an interdisciplinary field of enquiry and students can also choose one option course from the MA programmes in, for example, Archaeology, History, Art History, Social Anthropology, Classics and History of Science, Technology and Medicine (subject to permission and availability of places).
