Good morning -
Even if Museum Studies programs are good ones, they all have their specialty. I wouldn't necessarily look to all the programs as providing an equal background in collections management, or art history museums, or historical house museum work.
I went to GWU's Museum Studies program and graduated in 1999. I was a fellow in their NEH Collections Care Adminstrator Training Program - and that's what I do now. The faculty is great, and they are interested in developing the whole field of museum studies, not just their own program. Keep in mind that you should look into prior projects of the faculty of the grad programs you are considering. If a potential employer is connected to your chosen museum studies department because of a grant, workshop, or other project they worked on together in the past, that might make you more appealing (and this is what happened from my going to GWU).
A lot has happened at GWU since I went there (only 7 years ago!) but I'm happy to talk about it.
Best,
Rebecca Fifield
Rebecca Fifield
Collections Manager
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave.
New York NY 10028
212.650.2209
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I will have to put my 2 cents in re GW.
I graduated with an MA in museum studies from GW in 2002. It's an amazing
program, with fabulous faculty and very good course selection. You can
mold the program to your interests, which is great -- you can mix
anthropology with collections management, administration with American
Studies, exhibition design with history, or whatever else you can imagine.
In addition, there are some of the nation's finest museums in the
Washington, DC area -- these provide not only good resources for study,
but also for internships.
The GW program has a wide network of alums and I would argue that it does,
in fact, stand out amongst the group of programs you have listed.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them.
Good luck with your decision.
-Tracy Sullivan
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Neck Surgery
American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation
1 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
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