Art History and Museum Curating

You’ll work with academics who have relationships with museums across the UK, and direct experience of curating exhibitions and permanent collections in the museums and galleries sector. Our long-standing partnerships with local and national museums and collections include:

• theBritish Museum
• Historic Royal Palaces
• the National Trust
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
• Charleston.

You’ll also learn from museum professionals. In the past this has included senior staff from the V&A, Tate and Towner Art Gallery.

Studying Art History and Museum Curating at University of Sussex you’ll explore the history, theory and politics of art institutions and build a critical framework for the practice of curating. You visit museums in Sussex and in London, allowing you to learn first-hand about institutional histories, collections, permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.

You’llhave the choice of combiningmuseum curating with either the study of art history or the history of photography.

Careers

• You gain knowledge about objects and collections, and develop a critical awareness of museum practices.
• You develop communication and project management skills. These skills provide the practical and theoretical foundation for careers in:

• museums
• galleries
• heritage at curatorial level
• the cultural sector more broadly.

Courses include:

• Art History Research Skills and Methods
• Museum Skills: Contexts and Display
• Placement (Art History & Museum Curating)
• Art's Queer Stories
• Body and Society: Representing Women
• Dreams through a Lens: Surrealist Photography in Europe and North America