Herve wrote:

 would go even further: a
museum professional without some sort of solid academic background (at
least
undergraduate) in another discipline (be it history, art history or biology

or cultural anthropology)

is rather useless in a museum on a day-to-day basis.  You've got to be
competent in a given field before you can work in an institution that is
interested in that field.

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Eric Responds:

Yes, Herve, without my undergraduate degree in music I would have been
"rather useless" in my fifteen or twenty years in art museums, public
gardens, and science museums.

Seriously, tho, I do think its a bit much to specialize in Museum Studies
as an undergraduate.  It seems to represent the "trade-school-ization" of
undergraduate education.  A trend about which I have mixed feelings.

Eric Siegel