I am surprised that no one has fielded questions about why Museum
Studies should be relegated to a two-year programme; why there is not a
programme that addresses all the various aspects of museums
(conservation, administration, exhibition design,
architecture/facilities planning, museum education, et al.). The
conspicious absence of a PhD programme in either Museum Studies or
Museology alone (not in as a minor area of study in Art History, History
or Social Anthropology/Archaeology) in the American education system as
not arisen in this particular discussion.

Education should be enlightening, challenging, comprehensive, and should
reflect standards of scholarship--and should prepare one for competent
interaction in the woerkplace. That programmes such as museum
studies/museology and education are seen as 'less desirable' should be a
clue to the anti-education or the that education has not the
significance or other disciplines?

Dave Wells
Olympia WA