We are currently recruiting internationally for our 12th annual eleven
month Master's degree course (to run from  September 1998 - August 1999
inclusive) in museum, gallery, visual arts and heritage management.

An extract of the course details follows:

The City University (London) MA in Museum and Gallery Management is
intended for established professionals, managers and administrators in
museums, galleries, the visual arts or heritage services, who want  to
develop their management abilities and critical judgement in  the
context of museum and gallery policy and management.

In addition, each  year we also aim to admit a small number of
well-established professionals  wishing to transfer their established
professional skills and  qualifications to the cultural sector. Over
recent years qualified and  experienced accountants, architects, lawyers
and practising visual artists and craftspeople have all  successfully
followed the course, along with professionals from all  levels of the
museum and gallery sector, including curators, education  officers,
registrars and conservators, the educational system - from primary
school teachers to higher education lecturers, and from senior levels
of  education authority administration, as well as established professionals  in design, the art trade and
auction houses, marketing and public relations.

The course is not intended for final year undergraduates, or indeed for
recent graduates (except of course for mature students with relevant
experience prior to their university course), nor is it a course in
practical curatorship (in the sense of the direct care for and research
on collections) nor in scientific conservation.  Those without relevant
experience are advised to seek an appropriate pre-entry postgraduate
course in e.g. Museum Studies elsewhere, and to apply for the MA in
Museum and Gallery Management several years' later.  (We offer a "fast
track" option - see below - for those who come to the course already
holding the Museums Association's Associateship following a Postgraduate
Diploma or MA in Museum Studies elsewhere.)

The aim, therefore, of this unique course is to serve those whose major
interests are in working either immediately, or in the near future, at
the  policy-making and implementation levels in galleries, museums
or similar  organisations, or in the growing range of managerial and
administrative  positions within the sector. Recent graduate of the
course are now  working at museum director level within general
museums, as heads of  departments in national, local and independent museums, in areas  such as
finance, general administration, human resources management,  facilities
and services management, marketing, development and  membership, and in
national and regional arts and museums organisations.

The course is concerned with the management of galleries and museums as
public services, commercial enterprises, or a combination of the  two.
It raises questions of purpose, function and value as well as scrutinising
management techniques and modern developments in   government and
management thinking about museums and galleries.

Within the course the student is encouraged to chose his or her own
"pathway" through the wide range of alternatives.  Some concentrate of
options that focus on policy issues, others on management techniques  and
skills, yet others on the more practically orientated options. An
openness to debate and  a willingness to question received notions is
essential in a course which  aims to combine the theoretical and the
practical.

In recognition of the special needs of those seeking to develop a career
in the visual arts, the module Managing the Visual Arts may be taken as
an alternative compulsory module to Museum and Gallery Management, (see
below).

Course content and structure

Full-time students take four modules over thee terms including a least
two compulsory modules. A dissertation of 15,000 words must be completed
by 1 September making a total of 11 months of study.  Part-time students
complete the modules over four terms and spend a further two terms on their
dissertation.  This course may also be studied on a modular basis over a
period of up to four years.

For further details see our Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/
or e-mail: [log in to unmask] for a brochure and application details.


Patrick J. Boylan
(Professor of Arts Policy and Management)

City University, Frobisher Crescent, Barbican, London EC2Y 8HB, UK;
phone: +44-171-477.8750, fax:+44-171-477.8887; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
World Wide Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/