Museums Associations Service Providers List Yours Articles BooksConferences Museum JobsMuseum Studies Contact Us

Museum Studies or Museology Programs in the United States:

Museum Studies or Museology provides the knowledge, competence and credentials to pursue professional careers in the field of museums. Accredited programs are available worldwide.

Mid Atlantic | Mid West | Mountain Plains | New England | Southeast | West

List your museum studies programs with Museum Market.

MID ATLANTIC REGION (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.)

The Museum Leadership Program at Drexel University — prepares future museum professionals to embrace the opportunities and challenges that museums face now and to anticipate those that will shape the future. Geared to working professionals, this 45-credit Master of Science degree...

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS) assists the museum community in acquiring and strengthening its understandings and practices of museology...

The Graduate Program in Museum Studies at George Washington University combines traditional academic training in both academic subjects and museum practices and the practical experience that is necessary to begin a successful museum career...

The Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP) is the premier program in the United States for training museum professionals. Our graduates are known...

The M.A. in Museum Professions program at Seton Hall University — The Department of Art and Music offers a Master of Arts degree program in Museum Professions to those interested in pursuing careers in museums and related cultural institutions. Balancing structure and flexibility, this cutting-edge program comprises a small number of core courses...

The Museum Studies program at The University of the Arts provides its students with the skills and knowledge necessary to promote and enhance the relationship between museums and the public...

Back to top

MIDWEST REGION (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin)

Museum Studies Professional Development Program Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies (SCS) offers a Museum Studies program designed to give an overview of museum practices and strategies and help students understand the contemporary role played by collections and exhibits...

The Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis Museum Studies program offers both an undergraduate certificate and a graduate certificate in Museum Studies for working and aspiring professionals. With evening classes and flexible curriculum, working students...

Back to top

MOUNTAIN PLAINS REGION ( Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming)

The Heritage Management program of Texas Tech University emphasizes extensive investigation in the field of heritage management. Graduates from the program are prepared to enhance local, regional, and national sociological and scientific values, encourage preservation and stewardship of cultural and natural heritage...

The University of Kansas Museum Studies Program: The graduate program in Museum Studies offers training for professional careers in museums, historical agencies, and related organizations by providing an understanding of the theory, history, techniques, and problems common to these institutions as well as specialized training administered by the American Studies Program and the Departments of Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geology, and History...

Back to top

NEW ENGLAND REGION ( Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Conneticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island

The Master's Degree in Museum Studies at Harvard University Extension School is designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge and competence to pursue professional careers in the field of museums. It is appropriate for students with some background in the field of museum studies who want to improve their skills through formal academic training, and for those with little or no experience who wish to acquire...

Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts — An intensive six-week summer program for college juniors/seniors and recent B.A.s interested in careers in art museums. Classroom sessions, field trips to meet professionals in museums throughout New England and NYC, and a class-organized exhibition, with catalogue, at the Smith College Museum of Art...

Back to top

SOUTHEAST REGION ( Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia - and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands)

Museum Studies at Florida State University is a certificate program with a broad understanding of museums and practical experience in museum work. The program prepares students for museum careers by adding specific museum instruction...

Back to top

WESTERN REGION (California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii)

Arts Management, Museum Studies Concentration at the University of Oregon: The Museum Studies Concentration of the arts and administration master's degree at the University of Oregon prepares individuals for leadership positions in areas such as museum education, exhibition design, development, evaluation, and management. Students completing this concentration will be qualified to work in a variety of museums...

Cultural Studies Program with a Museum Studies Concentration at Claremont Graduate University: The MA and Ph D in Cultural Studies with a Museum Studies concentration, will give you the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary graduate work within the humanities and social sciences — approaching topics from a multitude of managerial, social, and philosophical perspectives...

Museum Studies at San Francisco State University: Our two-year Master of Arts program is interdisciplinary and hands-on, and integrates students' previous academic studies in Anthropology, Art History, Classics/Classical Archaeology, Design, Education, History, the Sciences or Public Administration...

Back to top